What is human geography?
Delaney Johnson
Alicia Frost
Samantha Priddy
Main Ideas
• “Human geography is the study of human activities on
earth’s surface.” (Marsh, Meredith)
• The first scholars began studying 3,000 years ago.
(Marsh, Meredith)
• Three major fields: Human geography, physical
geography, and environmental geography. (Marsh,
Meredith)
• Spatial perspective helps geographers look at how the
world changes over space. (Marsh, Meredith)
• No matter what area of human geography one studies,
they will all use spatial perspective to better
understand the world we live in. (Marsh, Meredith)
McHugh
Subtopics of Human Geography
Cultural Geography
•Anthropology
•Sociology
•History
Urban Geography
•Urban Studies
•Urban Social
Science Planning
Political Geography
•Political Science
Social Geography
•Sociology
•Language
•Religious Studies
(Marsh, Meredith)
Population Geography
•Demography
Economic Geography
•Regional economics
•Economics
Behavioral Geography
•Psychology
•Economics
(Geography)
Vocabulary
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Anthropogenic
Cultural ecology
Cultural landscape
Earth system science
Eratosthenes
Geographical
Information Systems
• Idiographic
• George Perkins Marsh
• Nomothetic
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W.D. Pattison
Ptolemy
Remote sensing
Carl Sauer
Spatial perspective
Systematic geography
Thematic layers
Vernacular regions
People
Eratosthenes- head librarian
at Alexandria during the
third century B.C. ; he was
one of the first
cartographers. He computed
an accurate measurement of
the earth’s circumference.
Coined the word
“geography”. (Marsh,
Meredith)
Ptolemy- Roman
geography/astronomer/author,
wrote Guide to Geography
which had maps using latitude
and longitude. (Marsh,
Meredith)
(Eratosthenes)
(Sun)
People cont.
George Perkins Marshinventor/diplomat/politici
an/scholar; wrote Man
and Nature, or Physical
Geography as Modified by
Human Action, and he
provided the first
description of how nature
has been changed by
humans. (Marsh,
Meredith)
(Marsh, George)
Useful Sites
• www.studystack.com
• www.geography.about.com
• www.quizlet.com
Works Cited
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Marsh, George Perkins. Digital image. Encyclopedia of Earth. 26 Feb. 2009. Web. 24 Apr. 2012.
<http://www.eoearth.org/article/Marsh,_George_Perkins>.
Marsh, Meredith, and Peter S. Alagona. "Chapter 1 What Is Human Geography." Barron's AP Human Geography. 3rd ed.
Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 2010. 53-68. Print.
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