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What is Geography?
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What is Geography? A branch of science concerned with how and why things are distributed over the earth and how the patterns of distribution have changed over time. Focus is on place and space. An empirical, quantitative discipline that follows the scientific method. Sometimes called the “spatial science.”
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Eight simple, yet profound, geographic questions 1. What is there? 2. What is its extent? 3. How much is there? 4. Why is it there? 5. Why isn’t it elsewhere? 6. Where could it be? 7. Was it there in the past? 8. Will it be there in the future?
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Four main areas of emphasis in Geography Cultural (or Human) Geography. Physical Geography. The study of the relationships between people and their environment. Regional Geography.
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Geographic tools Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Remote sensing Aerial photography Satellite imagery Cartography (samples?)
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What do Geographers do? Through research and the analysis of data they create spatial patterns that are interpreted.
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Explain the patterns that you see in this distribution with reference to what you know about the social geography of the United States.
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Cartographic Concepts • Effects of Scale? • State v. County
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Fig. 1.10- State Level Scale, 2004 Presidential Election Are you registered to vote? Gpy220_02 RubenCh1.ppt 9
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Fig. 1.10- County Level Scale, 2004 Presidential Election Gpy220_02 RubenCh1.ppt 10