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Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically

Vocabulary:


 * Agricultural density  ||  Diffusion   ||  GMT   ||  MDCs   ||  Prime Meridian   ||  Spatial Association   ||
 * Arithmetic density  ||  Distance Decay   ||  GPS   ||  Mental Mapping   ||  Projection   ||  Stimulus diffusion   ||
 * Cartography  ||  Distribution   ||  Hearth   ||  Meridian   ||  Region   ||  Time Zone   ||
 * Concentration  ||  Environmental Determinism   ||  Hierarchical diffusion   ||  Nonrenewable resource   ||  Relocation diffusion   ||  Topographic Map   ||
 * Climate  ||  Equator   ||  Human geography   ||  Ordinance   ||  Remote Sensing   ||  Topography   ||
 * Contagious diffusion  ||  Expansion diffusion   ||  International Date Line   ||  Parallel   ||  Renewable resource   ||  Toponym   ||
 * Cultural Ecology  ||  Formal region   ||  Koopen System   ||  Physical geography   ||  Resources   ||  Township   ||
 * Cultural Landscape  ||  Functional Region   ||  Landforms   ||  Physiological density   ||  Site   ||  Transnational Corporation   ||
 * Culture  ||  GIS   ||  LDCs   ||  Place   ||  Situation   ||  Uneven development   ||
 * Density  ||  Globalization   ||  map scale   ||  Possibilism   ||  Space-time Compression   ||  Vernacular Region   ||
 * ||   ||    ||    ||    ||  Weather   ||

Focus Questions:
 * 1) What are the purposes of maps?
 * 2) How have maps developed over time?
 * 3) How do scales impact what we see on a map?
 * 4) How is the “world” distorted on a map? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different maps?
 * 5) How is property divided?
 * 6) What are the modern tools of geography?
 * 7) How are places uniquely identified?
 * 8) What is a region? How are regions classified?
 * 9) What is culture?
 * 10) How does physical geography impact human geography?
 * 11) How has globalization impacted human geography?
 * 12) How do ideas, goods, philosophies, etc spread throughout the world?