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THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY KNOW AND BE ABLE TO…
KNOW
GEOGRAPHIC TOOLS KNOW
cartography
distortion
changing attributes of a place(built landscape,
GIS
sequent occupance)
GPS
cultural attributes (cultural landscape)
grid (North and South Poles, laticultural ecology
tude, longitude, parallel, equator,
density (arithmetic, physiological, agricultural)
meridian, Prime Meridian,
diffusion (hearth; relocation, expansion: hierarchical,
International Date Line)
contagious, stimulus)
map projections (Robinson,
direction (absolute, relative)
Mercator)
dispersion/concentration (dispersed/scattered;
map scale (distance on a map
clustered/agglomerated)
relative to distance on Earth)
distance (absolute, relative)
mental map
distribution
remote sensing
environmental determinism
time zones
location (absolute, relative, site, situation,
place name/toponym)
pattern (linear, centralized, random)
physical attributes (natural landscape)
possibilism
region (formal/uniform; functional/nodal;
perceptual/vernacular)
scale (implied degree of generalization)
spatial (of or pertaining to space on or near
Earth’s surface)
spatial interaction (accessibility, connectivity, network,
distance-decay, friction of distance, space-time
compression)
BE ABLE TO
 define geography, human geography, explain the meaning of spatial perspective
and mental map
 explain how geographers classify each of the following and provide examples of
each: ----distributions
locations
regions
 identify how each of the following plays a role in mapmaking:
induction
symbolization
simplification
categorization
 identify types of scale and projections used in mapmaking -- identify advantages
and disadvantages of different projections
 list different types (models) of diffusion and provide examples of each in the
real world
 distinguish between different types of mapped information (thematic, dot
distribution, choropleth, isoline, graduated symbol, cartogram, statistical) and
provide explanations of strengths and weaknesses of each of the following types
of maps:
dot distribution
choropleth
proportional symbol
isoline
**The above maps are all types of thematic maps – they each present a
different graphic theme**
READING ASSIGNMENTS
1. Rubenstein, Chapter 1 “Thinking Geographically”
2. Rubenstein, Appendix, pp. 488-493