Unit 1: The Nature of Geography
Title
DeBlij Ch1 1.1-1.2
What is Human Geography?
AND
What are Geographic
Questions?
Details
Nightly: 3 pages of
reading and
applicable
questions.
Reading Guide
Type
Deblij Ch 1.3 Why Do
Geographers Use Maps?
AND
MAPS Appendix A-1 to A-9
and
Deblij Ch 1.4-1.5
Why are Geographers
Concerned AND What are
Geographic Concepts
Reading Guide
HW
Block
8/10-11
Unit 1 Exam
Ch 1 Exam
Exam
Block
8/10-8/11
HW,
QUIZ
Due Date
8/2
Dates and Assignments are subject to change
Directions:
a.Number the index cards and write your name in pen in right top corner of each card
b. Turn in on the day of each section quiz, held together with rubber bands.
c. Front side of card:
1. term, concept, phrase, or name
2. a sketch, picture, or symbol to represent the definition
Back side of card:
1. Complete thoughts that explain and clarify the concept on the front of the card. Be sure to
include textbook definition, locations, examples, list significance and/or analyze significance.
Cards with definitions only not receive any credit.
2. Keep information brief and summarized. Use abbreviations when necessary.
e. Save all cards in a bag or box to review continually throughout the year.
Cards are worth points on your Second Semester final Exam and you will be required to turn them in
again.
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Mental maps
1.1 What is Human Geography?
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Generalized maps
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Answer the heading question
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Remote sensing
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Human Geography
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Globalization
1.4 Why Are Geographers Concerned with Scale and
1.2 What Are Geographic Questions?
Connectedness?
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Answer the heading question
 Answer the heading question

Physical Geography
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Spatial
 Types of Scales
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Spatial Distribution
 Regions
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Medical Geography
 Formal region
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Pandemic
 Functional regions
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Epidemic
 Perceptual regions
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Dr Snow
 Wilber Zelinsky- Vernacular regions of NA
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Cholera
 Culture
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Spatial perspective
 Cultural trait
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Five themes of geography
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Location
 Cultural complex
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Location theory
 Cultural hearth
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Human-environment interaction
 Cultural diffusion
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Regions
 Distance decay
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Place
 Cultural barriers
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Perception of place
 Expansion diffusion
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Movement
 Contagious diffusion
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Spatial interaction
 Hierarchical diffusion
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Distances
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Accessibility
 Stimulus diffusion
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Connectivity
 Relocation diffusion
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Cultural landscape
1.5 What are Geographic Concepts, and how are they
1.3 Why Do Geographers use maps and what do maps tell
used in answering geographic questions?
us?
 Answer the heading question
•
Answer the heading question

Cartography
 Geographic Concepts
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Reference maps
 Environmental determinism
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Thematic maps
 Isotherms
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Absolute location
 Possibilism
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Global Positioning System (GPS)
 Cultural ecology
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Geocaching
 Political ecology
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Relative location