KBAT
UNIT 1: Geography: Nature & Perspectives
KNOW (chapter vocabulary)
Absolute Location
Cartography
Contagious Diffusion
Culture
Time-Distance Decay
Environmental
determinism
Expansion Diffusion
Formal Region
Five Themes
Functional Region
GIS
Globalization
GPS
Chapter 1 Introduction to Human Geography
Hierarchical Diffusion
Human Environment
Human Geography
Cultural Hearth
Location
Mental Map
Pattern
Physical Geography
Possibilism
Reference Maps
Region
Relative Location
Relocation Diffusion
Remote Sensing
Sequent Occupance
Spatial
Spatial Distribution
Spatial Perspective
Stimulus Diffusion
Thematic Maps
Density
Diffusion
Distribution
Perceptual Region
Accessibility
Connectivity
Generalization
Perceptual Region
BE ABLE TO (chapter objectives)
Define geography and human geography
Explain the meaning of a spatial perspective
Identify how each of the following plays a role in mapmaking:

simplification

symbolization

categorization

induction
Identify types of scale and projections used in mapmaking - identify advantages
and disadvantages of different projections.
Distinguish between different types of mapped information (dot distribution,
choropleth, etc.) and provide explanations of strengths and weaknesses of each.
Explain how geographers classify each of the following and provide examples of
each:
 distributions
DUE: September 28, 2015
DEFINE all VOCABULARY & ANSWER each of the KEY QUESTIONS
 locations
 regions
Explain, apply, and analyze data produced using the Gravity Model.
List different types (models) of diffusion and provided examples/illustrations of
each in the real world.
Explain the difference between three uses of scale: cartographic, analytic, and
geographic
define and discuss cultural ecology, possibilism, and environmental determinism
KEY QUESTIONS (respond, in complete sentences, after reading each section)
1.
What is human geography?
2.
What are geographic questions?
3.
Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us?
4.
Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
5.
What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering
geographic questions?
CASE STUDIES
DUE: September 28, 2015
DEFINE all VOCABULARY & ANSWER each of the KEY QUESTIONS