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Introduction to Human Geography
I.
Field Note: Awakening To Hunger
a. Food Consumption
b. Malnourishment
c. Solving Hunger
d. Wealthy Countries
e. Poor Countries
i. Kenya
ii. Foreign Corporations
II.
What Is Human Geography?
a. Human Geography
b. Advances In Communication
c. Economic Globalization
d. Interconnected World
i. Globalization
1. Local And Global
2. Regional And National
3. Process Of Globalization
e. Inhabited Earth
III.
What Are Geographic Questions?
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a. Physical Geography
b. “Why Of Where”
c. Spatial Perspective
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d. Mapping Spatial Perspective
i. Maps In The Time Of Cholera
1. Medical Geography
a. Pandemics
b. Dr. Snow
2. Lima, Peru
a. Epidemic
3. Port Au Prince, Haiti
4. Geographic Context Of Events And Circumstances
ii. The Spatial Perspective
1. Place Location
2. Change Over Time
3. Spatial Perspective
4. Five Themes Of Geography
a. The Five Themes
i. Location
AP Human Geography
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1. Location Theory
ii. Human Environment Interaction
1. Army Corp Of Engineers
iii. Region
iv. Place
1. Sense Of Place
2. Perceptions Of Place
v. Movement
1. Spatial Interaction
2. Distances
3. Accessibility
4. Connectivity
b. Cultural Landscape
i. Landscape
ii. Cultural Landscape
iii. Sequent Occupence
IV.
Why Do Geographers Use Maps, And What Do Maps Tell Us?
a. Cartography
b. Reference Maps
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c. Thematic Maps
d. Absolute Location
e. Global Positioning System (GPS)
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Geocaching
g. Relative Location
i. Mental Maps
ii. Generalization In Maps
iii. Remote Sensing And GIS
1. Remote Sensing
2. Geographic Information Systems
a. Use In Human And Physical Geography
b. GIS And Other Technology
c. GIS And The Power Of Data
V.
Why Are Geographers Concerned With Scale And Connectedness?
a. Scale
i. Two Meanings
1. First
2. Second
b. Patterns And Scale
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c. Shifting Scale
d. Rescale
e. Jumping Scale
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i. Regions
1. Formal Region
2. Functional Region
3. Perceptual Region
a. Perceptual Regions in the U.S.
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ii. Culture
1. Concept Of Culture
2. Culture Trait
a. Wearing Turbans
3. Culture Complex
a. Herding Cattle
4. Cultural Hearth
a. Independent Invention
iii. Connectedness Through Diffusion
1. Cultural Diffusion
2. Time-Distance Decay
3. Cultural Barriers
4. Types Of Diffusion
a. Expansion Diffusion
i. Contagious Diffusion
ii. Hierarchical Diffusion
iii. Stimulus Diffusion
b. Relocation Diffusion
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VI.
Why Are Geographic Concepts, And How Are They Used In Answering Geographic Questions?
a. Geographic Concepts
b. Rejection Of Environmental Determinism
i. Ancient Greeks
1. Aristotle
ii. Environmental Determinism
1. Exceptions To Environmental Determinism
2. Deterministic Explanations
c. Possibilism
i. Limitations Of Possibilism
ii. Cultural Ecology
iii. Political Ecology
d. Today’s Human Geography
i. Sub disciplines
ii. Cultural Geography
iii. Careers
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