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History & Devlopment of the Discipline
Geography Today
Thinking Geographically
Vocab
Wildcard
100
Cartography
What is the oldest field of geography?
100
Places & Regions
Physical geographers tend to focus on
100
Fuzzy because they allow for individual interpretation.
Characteristic of Perceptual Region's Boundaries.
100
Human induced changes on the natural environment
Anthropogenic
100
Northwest West Coast Inter-Mounatain West SouthWest Great Plains Mid-West South South Florida Mid-Atlantic New England
What are the 10 majore regions The U.S. is divided into?
200
Global Positioning System (GPS)
What is a compromised of an intergrated system of satellites?
200
Anthropogenic
Human-Induced environmental change is often referred to as
200
Qualitative
If a geographer uses interviews as his primary data source his method is
200
Concepts are rules that can be applied universally
Nomothetic
200
Political Population Urban Social Economic Behavioral Cultural
What are the 7 subfields of Human Geography?
300
Carl Sauer
Who argued that cultural landscapes should form the basic unti of geographic inquiry?
300
Sustainability
Conserving resources for future generations is called
300
Nomothetic
Concepts that are Universally applicable
300
Systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between the eath's physical systems and processes on a global scale
Earth System Science
300
Remotely sensed image Land Ownership Hydrology Forest Cover Soils Composite Overlay
What are the multiple thematic layers for GIS?
400
Stressed the use of empirical measurements, hypthesis testing, and mathematical processes.
During the quantitive revolution, geographers,
400
Area-Analysis tradition Culture-Environment relations Earth-Science tradition Locational tradition
The four traditions of geography according to W.D. Pattison's definition.
400
They are conceptual units
Characteristic of a Region
400
The concept of using the earth's resourced in such a way that they provide for people's needs in the present without diminishing the earth's ability to provide for future generations
Sustainability
400
Bartholomeu Dias C. Colombus Francis Drake James Cook
What were the names of the four European sailors during the age of exploration?
500
Individual maps of specific features that are overlaid on one another in a GIS to understand and analyze a spatial relationship
What is a thematic layer?
500
It studies processes and problems at the intersection of human and physical geography
True statement regarding the nature of environmental geography
500
A Conceptual hierarchy of spaces
Geographic scale refers to
500
The head librarain at Alexandria during the 3rd Century B.C. He was one of the first cartogrophers performed a remarkably accurate computation of the Earth's circumfrence. He is also credited with coining the term geography.
Who is Eratosthenes
500
46,250 km
According to Eratosthenes, what was the Earth's circumfrence?