1. What is human geography?
Delaney Johnson
Alicia Frost
Samantha Priddy

2. 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

3. Subtopics of Human Geography (Marsh, Meredith)
Cultural Geography
Anthropology
Sociology
History
Political Geography
Political Science
Population Geography
Demography
Urban Geography
Urban Studies
Urban Social
Science Planning
Social Geography
Sociology
Language
Religious Studies
Economic Geography
Regional economics
Economics
Behavioral Geography
Psychology
Economics
(Geography)

4. Vocabulary (Marsh, Meredith)
Anthropogenic
W.D. Pattison
Cultural ecology
Ptolemy
Cultural landscape
Remote sensing
Earth system science
Carl Sauer
Eratosthenes
Spatial perspective
Geographical Information Systems
Systematic geography
Thematic layers
Idiographic
Vernacular regions
George Perkins Marsh
Nomothetic

5. 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)

6. People cont.
George Perkins Marsh- inventor/diplomat/politician/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)

7. Useful Sites www.studystack.com www.geography.about.com

8. Works Cited
Culture. Digital image. Teaching Culture. Web. 24 Apr < Eratosthenes. Digital image. Conservapedia. Web. 24 Apr < Geography 1982: World Regional Geography. Digital image. University of Colorado Boulder. Fall Web. 24 Apr < Marsh, George Perkins. Digital image. Encyclopedia of Earth. 26 Feb Web. 24 Apr < 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, Print. McHugh, Kenna. 5 Earth Day Social Media Activities - SocialTimes. Digital image. SocialTimes. 22 Apr Web. 24 Apr < Sun-Earth Day Presents: Eclipse, In a Different Light. Digital image. NASA. NASA. Web. 24 Apr <