Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography
Chapter Outline
1. What is Human Geography? (Main bold Black Heading)
a. Human Geography
b. Globalization
i. Global Local continuum
ii. Scale:
1. Define
2. Why is it important
iii. How does globalization impact the world?
2. What are Geographic questions?
a. Why of where:
b. Spatial:
c. Spatial distribution
d. Patterns
e. Maps in the time of Cholera Pandemic
i. Pandemic
ii. Epidemic
iii. How did the spatial analysis of cholera cases help to solve the problem?
f. Spatial perspective
g. Five themes of Geography
i. Location
1. Location theory
ii. Human environment interaction
iii. Region
iv. Place
1. Sense of place
2. Perception of place
v. Movement
1. Spatial interaction
2. Distances
3. Accessibility
4. Connectivity
vi. Cultural landscapes
1. Carl Sauer
2. Sequent occupance
3. What can we learn from cultural landscapes
3. Why do Geographers use Maps, and what do They Tell Us?
a. Cartography
b. Reference maps
c. Thematic maps
d. Absolute location
i. Global positioning system (GPS)
ii. Geocaching
e. Relative location
f. Mental Maps
i. Activity space
ii. Terra incognita
g. Generalizations in maps
h. Remote sensing and GIS
4. Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
a. 2 meanings of scale
5. Regions
a. Why are regions used?
b. Formal Regions
c. Functional Regions
d. Perceptual Regions
i. Perceptual regions in the US
e. Culture
i. Cultural trait
ii. Cultural hearth
1. Independent invention
f. Diffusion
i. Culture diffusion
1. Carl Sauer
a. Agricultural origins and dispersals
2. Time-distance decay
3. Cultural barrier
4. Expansion Diffusion
a. Contagious diffusion
b. Hierarchical diffusion
c. Stimulus diffusion
5. Relocation diffusion
6. What are geographic concepts and how are they used in answering Geographic Questions?
a. Geographic Concepts
b. Environmental determinism
c. Possiblilism