Thinking Geographically Unit 1: Geography, It’s Nature and Perspectives

Key Concepts  Locations of people  Reasons for distribution  Where? Why?  Globalization v. Local Diversity

Physical Geography Where and Why?

Human Geography Where and Why?

Topical vs. Regional Approach  Instead of starting with a REGION and going over all of the issues in that PLACE…  We are going to start with the Issues and see how they apply to different places in different ways and ask WHY?

Hurricane Katrina

5 Themes of Geography  Location  Place  Region  Movement  Human-Environmental Interaction

Three Concepts  Scale  Space  Connection

Maps  Spatial perspective  Store reference material  Communicate information  Explain dynamic processes at work  Reveal patterns and help us think about the reasons for distributions of humans and activities

Big Mac Attack 

Overview of the Reading  History of cartography  Scale  Projection  Contemporary Tools  Place  Regions  Scale, Space, and Connections

Maps What is a map? What do they do?

Map  Visual representation of the physical world  Can include:  Cultural landscape  Cities  Houses  People- Demographics  States- Countries  Physical Features  Mountains, Deserts, Rivers, Oceans

Cartography  Science/Art of map making  How accurate does a map have to be?  Scale  Symbols  Maps tell stories  What is the map trying to tell you?

Historic Maps

Art in Maps

World maps

Political Maps

Large Scale Artistic Maps

Physical Maps

Travel and Information

Demographics

Blueprints

Mind Maps Mental image of your world.

Scale

Map Components  Compass  Neat Line  Title  Scale  Key