Unit 1: Intro to Geography
In our studies we will recognize the difference between Physical and Human Geography.
Basically there are rocks, soil, climate, and natural landscape versus human activities like soccer,
rice farming, and cultural landscape.
Where?
- Map
- Cartography
- Space versus place
- Site/physical
- Situation or relative location
- Absolute location/mathematical location
- Toponym
- Latitude (equator) versus longitude (meridians)
- International Date Line
- Prime Meridian
- Greenwich Mean Time / time zones
- Babylonians
- Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Ptolemy
- Scale (large/small)
- Projection(shape, distance, relative size, direction)
- Maps – Mercator, Goode’s homolosine, Robinson
 Map types
 Thematic
 Statistical
 Cartogram
 Dot
 Choropleth
 Isoline
- GPS, GIS, remote sensing
Why?
 Cultural landscape (attributes& built) /regional studies versus natural environment
- Jean Brunhes
- Paul Vidal de la Blache
- Carl Sauer
- Humboldt/Ritter – environmental determinism
- Huntington’s Thesis – climate (haves/have nots)
- Possibilism – cultural values (resources)
- Koppen system
- Ecumene / non-ecumene
- Environmental modification (Netherlands, New York, Boston, New Orleans, most recently
Florida)
 Distribution
- Density/frequency
- Agricultural
- Arithmetic
- Physiological
- Dispersion/Concentration (cluster/disperse)
- Pattern (linear, centralized, random)
 Globalization
- Space-time compression / trend => shrinking
- Accessibility, connectivity, network
- Friction of distance, distance decay
- Uneven development – MDC’s/LDC’s
 Diffusion
- Hearth
- Relocation
- Expansion
 Hierarchical
 Stimulus
 Contagious
 Intervening Obstacle
 Intervening Opportunity
 Region
 Formal/uniform
 Functional/nodal
 Perceptual/vernacular
Date
8/26
8/27
8/28
8/29
8/30
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Class Activity
Welcome & Names
Pre-Test
Maps and Map Making
What is HuG study? Activity
Syllabus Quiz
Start Making Maps
HW Due on Day listed
Syllabus handed out
9/3
9/4
9/5
9/6
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Making Maps
Making Maps
Lecture and Discussion
Activity
Ch 1 pgs 9-14
9/9
9/10
9/11
9/12
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
9/13
Friday
Diffusion and Case Study
Case Study and Regions
Lecture and Discussion
Environmental Determinism
vs Possibilism
Environmental Determinism
vs Possibilism
9/16
9/17
9/18
9/19
Monday
Tuesday
Wrap Up and Discuss
Geo Basics Test Ch 1
Ch 1 pgs 2-9
Ch 1 pgs 14-20
Ch 1 pgs 20-35
Ch 1 pgs 35-41
9/20