Course Outline Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives 5-10% Population 13-17% Cultural Patterns and Processes 13-17% Political Organization of Space 13-17% Agricultural and Rural Land Use 13-17% Industrialization and Economic Development 13-17% Cities and Urban Land Use 13-17%

Created by David Palmer Eaglecrest High School What is Geography? Created by David Palmer Eaglecrest High School

Definitions - Use Cornell Literal Definition: a description of the earth Emmanuel Kant: “History looks at change across time. Geography looks at change across space.” Hartshorn: “Geography is the discipline that seeks to describe and interpret the variable character from place to place of the earth as the world of man.” Greenland: “Geography is the study of the distribution and interrelationships of the elements of the human environment and the relationships between humans and the physical environment.” Your Definition:

Method vs Perspective Geographic Method: using geographic information to describe the earth Geographic Perspective: a geographic grid through which information is interpreted Example: The Earth at Night

Geographic Investigation Process - 4 Level Analysis Level 1 - What? Where? When? Level 2 - Pattern Identification Level 3 Why there? How did it get there? Level 4 (prediction) So what? What if?

Earth at Night - Global Scale

North America at Night - Regional Scale Online: 6/27/2006 - http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/49261main_usa_nightm.jpe

Your State at Night - Local Scale Online: 6/27/2006 -http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/usanight_dmsp_big.gif

Geographic Investigation Process Level 1 - What? Where? When? Level 2 - Pattern Identification Level 3 Why there? How did it get there? Level 4 So what? What if? Skills? Population Data Sheet - profile chart