Lesson 1 Flashcards
Geography came from the Greek word____
Geographia
“geos”
earth
“graphein”
to write
THE FOUR TRADITIONS OF GEOGRAPHY
- SPATIAL OR LOCATIONAL TRADITION
- AREA STUDIES OR REGIONAL TRADITION
- MAN-LAND TRADITION
- EARTH SCIENCE TRADITION
He _______Precepts Attempt to Define the World in Which We Live In
Geographer ______ introduced his four traditions of geography at the annual convention of the National Council for Geographic Education in 1963.
William Pattison’s
The ____ attempts to explain the course of human settlements in terms of location, growth, and in relation to other locales.
Locational Tradition
The _____, based on interest in geometry and movement, separates aspects of distance, form, direction, and position from events themselves
spatial tradition___
Entrenched in Western thought is a belief in the importance of spatial analysis, of the act of separating from the happenings of experience such aspects as
distance, form, direction, and position.
determines as much as it is possible to glean about a particular place in order to define, describe, and differentiate it from other regions or areas.
Area Studies Tradition
World regional geography, along with international trends and relationships are at its center. This tradition focuses on:
Nature of Places
Characteristics
Differentiation
the study of the relationship between human beings and the land they live on.
MAN-LAND TRADITION
Along with addition population geography, the
tradition also takes into account the ramifications that cultural and political practices have on the given area of study as well. The keywords are:
Environmentalism
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
is the study of planet. Earth as the home to humans and its systems
The Earth Science Tradition
The core concepts of the Earth Science Tradition are: Study of water, land and atmosphere
• What makes geography part of the hard sciences
Atmosphere
Lithosphere
Biosphere
Hydrosphere
Anthrosphere
Cryosphere
In response to the four traditions, in the mid-1970s,
researcher ________ noted that Pattison’s
model left out several important aspects of
geography, such as the factor of time as it relates to historical geography and cartography (mapmaking).
J. Lewis Robinson
