Chapter #: __________ Chapter Title:
Key Issue 1 (pg. 5) How do Geographers Describe Where Things Are?
Key Issue 2 (pg. 14) Why Is Each Point on Earth Unique?
[headings from the chapter] Write small summaries for each.
Place: A Unique Location (pg. 14)
Maps (pg. 5)
Place Names
Early Mapmaking
Site
Contemporary Mapping
Situation
Map Scale
Region: A Unique Area (pg. 16)
Projection
Formal Region
Geographic Grid
Functional Region
Telling Time
Vernacular Region
Contemporary Tools (pg. 12)
Regions of Culture
Collecting Data: Remote Sensing
Culture: What People Care About
Pinpointing Location: GPS
Culture: What People Take Care Of
Layering Data: GIS
Spatial Association
Mixing Data: Mashups
Key Issue 3 (pg. 20) Why Are Different Places Similar?
Key Issue 4 (pg. Why Are Some Human Actions Not Sustainable?
Scale: From Local to Global (pg. 20)
Sustainability and Resources (pg. 30)
Globalization of Economy
Three Pillars of Sustainability
Globalization of Culture
Space: Distribution of Features (pg. 22)
Sustainability's Critics
Distribution Properties: Density
Earth's Physical Systems
Distribution Properties: Concentration
Distribution Properties: Pattern
Sustainability and Human-Environment Relationships (pg. 34)
Cultural Identity In Space
Interactions in the Biosphere
Cultural Identity in Contemporary Geography Thought
Connections Between Places (pg. 26)
Cultural Ecology: Integrating Culture and Environment
Relocation Diffusion
Modifying the Environment
Expansion Diffusion
The Netherlands: sustainable Ecosystem
Spatial Integration
Unequal Access
South Florida: Unsustainable Ecosystem:
Case Study (pg. 7) Sustainability And Inequality In Our Global Village - Mapping
a Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Write summary
Case Study (pg. 12) Contemporary Geographic Tools - Electronic Navigation
Write Summary
What was the distribution of the population before Katrina?
How did the researchers gather information for the Navteq?
What has happened to that Distribution?
What scales can a person acquire using Navteq?
Why is this happening?
What are some future benefits of using contemporary tools like a GPS?