Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 1



Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 1

What Is Human Geography?

Fouberg pp. 1-5

1. According to the text, how many people are malnourished in the world?

2. World Hunger - Use the map on page 2 in your textbook to prepare a sketch map which shows the % of undernourished population by country in 2011. Use a variety of colors and include a key.

Define human geography:

2. Define globalization:

3. Based on the map above, what patterns do we notice in terms of global malnourishment?

4. What are considered to be the major causes of malnourishment in the world? (see p. 1)

5. How has globalization hindered the nation of Kenya, particularly in relation to food production?

6. Define human geography:

7. Define globalization:

8. World GDP - Use the map on page 3 in your textbook to prepare a sketch map which shows the per capita gross national income in 2012. Most geographers refer to GDP as a measurement of the overall wealth of a country. Use a variety of colors and include a key.

9. Where are the world’s “richest” countries located? What patterns do you see at the regional scale?

Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 2

What are Geographic Questions?

Fouberg 5-11

1. Define physical geography:

2. What is spatial arrangement? How can spatial arrangement be used to identify patterns or processes? (Hint: explain the phrase, “the why of where”)

3. In what ways did Dr. Snow use medical geography in order to discover the route cause of cholera outbreaks in London, England?

4. What is cholera? Describe the symptoms of the disease and how it spreads.

Provide details into how Cholera affected each of the following areas.

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6. How would you explain spatial perspective?

7. As you read pgs. 8-10, complete the table below with the 5 Themes of Geography including specific examples or applications of each.

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|PLACE | | |

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NOTE!!! A HELPFUL ACRONYM THAT THE 5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY CREATE IS MR. HELP

M = MOVEMENT

R = REGION

HE: HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

L = LOCATION

P = PLACE

8. Geographers use the term _______________________ to refer to the _________________________ of a place, the complex ____________________________, human structures, and other tangible objects that give a place particular _______________.

9. The Cultural Landscape can be seen as the ______________________________________________ on the landscape. Which geographer is most closely associated with cultural landscape?

Give an example of Moreno Valley’s cultural landscape:

10. Complete the following regarding sequent occupance.

|Sequent Occupance |

|Elements/components/explanation… |Modern-day example |

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Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 3

Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us?

Fouberg pp. 11-17

1. Define cartography:

2. According to the text, list some of the practical uses for maps:

3. Determine the primary difference between a reference map & a thematic map. Do your best to provide an example of each.

| REFERENCE MAP | THEMATIC MAP |

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4. Define absolute and relative locations and, in your own words, describe the difference between them. Provide an example to support your claims.

5. What is a mental map? How is it different from sense of place?

Why are mental maps of our activity spaces more accurate than those of places that we have never been to? How does this illustrate Tobler’s First Law?

6. What is remote sensing?

List several things that geographers can map using remotely sensed data:

7. Complete the following regarding Global Positioning System (GPS) & Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

|G P S (see p. 12) |

|Elements/components… |Uses/implementation… |

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|G I S |

|Elements/components… |Uses/implementation… |

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Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 4

Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?

Fouberg pp. 18-26

1. What does it mean to study a place across scales? What types of scales are there? What happens as you localize scale?

2. Complete the chart below which details types of regions identified by geographers.

| |FORMAL REGION |FUNCTIONAL REGION |PERCEPTUAL REGION |

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3. Perceptual Regions of the USA - Use the map on page 22 in your textbook to prepare a sketch map which shows the various perceptual regions of the USA. Use a variety of colors (note there may be some overlapping of colors) and include a key. Ignore Hawaii & Alaska.

4. Define culture:

5. Define cultural trait and give an example:

5. Define culture complex and give an example:

How is a culture complex different from a cultural trait?

6. Define cultural hearth and give an example:

7. Describe the phenomenon known as (time-)distance decay. How is it similar to Tobler’s First Law?

8. Diffusion is defined as the process by which a characteristic spreads across space. With regard to diffusion, define and, where possible, give an example of each of the following.

|T Y P E S O F D I F F U S I O N |

|relocation diffusion | |

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|E x p a|hierarchical diffusion | |

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| |contagious diffusion | |

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| |stimulus diffusion | |

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Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 5

What are geographic concepts, and how they are used in answering geographic questions?

Fourberg pp. 26-27

1. Define and explain cultural ecology.

2. Define and explain Environmental Determinism:

What arguments did Aristotle and Ellsworth Huntington provide in support of Environmental Determinism?

What arguments have emerged against Environmental Determinism?

3. Define and explain Possiblism:

Why might Possibilism be considered inaccurate as well? (Why has political ecology replaced cultural ecology?)

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5. Use the map on pg. 7 in order to determine the rate of Cholera cases by population in Haiti in 2010. Be sure to use 4 different colors & include a key.

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