Unit 1: Thinking Geographically, Chapter 1: Unit Overview

Question 1

Study of spatial characteristics of various elements of the physical environment. These type of geographers study topics such as landforms, bodies of water, climate, ecosystems and erosion.

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Physical Geography

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Is the study of the spatial characteristics of humans and human activities. These type of geographers study topics such as population, culture, politics, urban areas and economics.

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Human Geography

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Comprehension, Identification, Explanation and Prediction. It is a spatial framework that will guide your thinking, provide an approach to spatial thinking, and help you think like a geographer.

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Four-Level Analysis

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A system of ideas and concepts that attempt to explain and prove why or how interactions have occurred on the past or will occur in the future.

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Theory

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Are key vocabulary, ideas, and building blocks that geographers use to describe our world.

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Concepts

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Involve a series of steps or actions that explain why or how geographic patterns occur

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Processes

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Representations of reality or theories about reality, to help geographers see general spatial patterns, focus on the influence of specific factors and understand variations from place to place.

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Models

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Stylized maps, they illustrate theories about ____ distributions. These are for agricultural and urban land use, distributions of cities, and storage or factory location.

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Spatial Models

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Illustrate theories and concepts using words, graphs, or tables. They depict changes over time rather than across space, more accurate.

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Nonspatial Models

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The idea that things like cities nearest to each other are more closely connected or related than things that are far apart. As distance increases, interactions and connections decrease.

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Time-distance Decay

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General arrangement of things (density, dispersion, clustered, scattered, linked, etc.) This is used to communicate about locations and distributions.

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Spatial Patterns

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Interconnected entities, sometimes called nodes.

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Networks

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Any information that can be measured and recorded using numbers.

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Quantitative Data

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Quantitative and spatial. It has a geographic location component to it such as a country, city, zip code, latitude, longitude or address and is often used with geographic information systems

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Geospatial Data

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Not usually representented by numbers. This data is collected as interviews, photographs, remote satellite images, descriptions, or cartoons.

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Qualitative Sources

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Looking at topics at the local, regional, country or global scale.

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Scales of Analysis