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

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

3. 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:

4. 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

5. 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?

6. Earth at Night - Global Scale

7. North America at Night - Regional Scale
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8. Your State at Night - Local Scale
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9. 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