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Nature and Perspectives. AP Human Geography Unit 1. What is geography?. Is geography scientific? AP Human vs. World Geography Course: Human vs. Physical Topical vs. Regional Approach Fundamentals: Place, Region, Scale, Space, Connections. Place. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A P H U M A N G E O G R A P H YU N I T 1
NATURE AND PERSPECTIVES
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WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?• Is geography scientific?
• AP Human vs. World Geography Course:• Human vs. Physical • Topical vs. Regional
Approach
• Fundamentals:• Place, Region, Scale,
Space, Connections
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PLACE
• Toponym, Site, Situation (relative location), Mathematical Location (exact location)
• Mental Maps: using the concept of place…• Find a partner…on a piece of paper, draw a mental map
of your neighborhood, and the Marietta/Cobb County area. Include a home address in your map. Show as much detail as you can, and remember to make the map accurate in terms of what is important to you, such as the places you eat, work, walk, recreate, friends’ houses, landmarks, etc. Finally, make sure you include your own made-up symbols and associated legend/key…don’t use a map, or electronic device for this activity.
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PLACE• As you work on your map consider the following
questions…1. What do you personally consider to be the most important
features on your map? Why? How do these features/places shape your “sense of place?”
2. Why are certain businesses or houses located where they are on your map?
3. How have people influenced the physical and/or cultural environment in a particular area noted on your map?
4. How long have you lived here? How has this affected your mental map?
5. How do you get around? Do you drive, walk, or bike? How has this affected your mental map?
View of Kennesaw Mt., from Sweat Mt.
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DOES YOUR MAP LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS?
• This is the one of the oldest known maps (Ga-Sur 2500BCE), drawn on a clay tablet in Ancient Babylon.
Line drawn image of the map
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HOW DO GEOGRAPHERS DESCRIBE WHERE THINGS ARE?
• Maps• Characteristics:
• Scale • large vs. small
• Symbols • Thematic Maps
• Projection• Grid System
• Do maps lie???• Projection, Scale,
Data Manipulation …or…
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SCALEWashington State (1:10 million scale)
Seattle Region(1:100,000 scale)
Downtown Seattle, Washington(1:10,000 scale)
Western Washington(1:1 million scale)
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MAP SYMBOLS
Cell Towers (Dot Map)
2008 Electoral Map (Cartogram—population)
Individuals living in Poverty, 2000 (Choropleth)
Multiple Symbol Map
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MAP SYMBOLSRelief MapIsoline Map
in millions, (Proportional Symbols)
Pie chart map
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PROJECTIONS
Conic—p.12-13 (atlas)
• Cylindrical—p.10 (atlas)
Planar (Azimuthal)--p.46 (atlas)
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PROBLEM OF PROJECTIONMercator
Robinson
Fuller’s
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PROBLEM OF PROJECTIONEqual Area
Peters
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Total Number of African-Americans in each State1951 - 112460112461 - 300130300131 - 778035778036 - 14563231456324 - 2859055
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Continental United StatesThis map shows the total number of African-Americans per state. Examine Georgia.
Misleading Scale
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Number of African-Americans per County0 - 47914792 - 1219412195 - 2424124242 - 8260882609 - 324008
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GeorgiaIn the previous slide, Georgia had one of the highest number of African-Americans, but a closer look tells a different picture. The dark red is the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Misleading Scale
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Percentage of Hispanic Total in the US0% - 0.3%0.3% - 0.7%0.7% - 1.9%1.9% - 4%4% - 9.9%9.9% - 19.4%19.4% - 34.4%
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Hispanic Population by Percentage of US Total
Misleading Statistics
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Percentage of Hispanics0 - 0.0470.047 - 0.1460.146 - 0.2960.296 - 0.5220.522 - 0.927
Percentage of HispanicsA similar comparison can be made with Hispanics living in the US. This map shows the total percentage of Hispanics in each county.
Misleading Statistics
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Number of Hispanics0 - 4122341224 - 183465183466 - 462411462412 - 953407953408 - 3351242
Total Number of Hispanics This map displays the total number of Hispanics in each US county.
Misleading Statistics
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These three Southern California counties (Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego) have a total Hispanic population of 5,045,726 which is greater than the total Hispanic population of Texas at 4,339,905. New Mexico has the greatest percentage of Hispanics (33%), it’s total Hispanic population is 579,224.
Misleading Statistics
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MAP INTERPRETATION
Using a textbook or atlas find three thematic maps and analyze them using the following steps:
1. List the page number from the book (and which book), figure # and title.
2. Identify the type of map, including projection type if appropriate. (ie. Proportional symbol, dot, choropleth, cartogram, isoline)
3. Describe the purpose of the map. 4. Analyze map for content beyond obvious. Look for
trends, exceptions, lessons being demonstrated (may have to read corresponding part of book), etc. These should be AP-level observations.
5. What could be done to improve the map?
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MAP INTERPRETATION
Example:1. HIV/AIDS , 2002. Figure 2-26, pg. 75 Rubenstein2. Equal Area Projection, choropleth, 3. Demonstrates capacity of AIDS to be a global reducer of
population and identify key global regions hardest hit by the epidemic.
4. Sahara Desert seems to serve as an obstacle to the diffusion of AIDS from the southern part which is primarily devastated by the disease.
• Other global parts that exhibit at least an above average problem with the disease are usually located in the tropics, with the exception of the Ukraine in eastern Europe.
5. It might be interesting to see differences within countries. I would also like some indication just how high the infection rate is in countries over 15%.
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PLACE: MATHEMATICAL LOCATION
Latitude
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PLACE: MATHEMATICAL LOCATION
Longitude
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MATHEMATICAL LOCATION: TIME ZONES
The world’s 24 standard time zones each represent about 15° of longitude. They are often depicted using the Mercator projection.
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MATH. LOCATION: TOWNSHIP & RANGE SYSTEM IN THE US
Principal meridians & east-west baselines of the township system. Townships in northwest Mississippi & topographic map of the area.
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REGION
• “Areas of unique characteristics”
• Culture• What people care
about • What people take
care of • Cultural Landscape
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REGION
• Formal (uniform)
• Functional (nodal)
The state of Iowa is an example of a formal region; theareas of influence of various television stations areexamples of functional regions.
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REGION
• Vernacular (perceptual)• What is “the West?”
Name 3 regions in which we live.
A number of features are often used to definethe South as a vernacular region, each ofwhich identifies somewhat different boundaries.
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VERNACULAR REGION
Mental Map: On a sheet of paper, create a mental map of the United States, taking into account various cultural and geographic characteristics…Be sure to identify the key characteristic
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY
• Study of “human environment relationships”
• Environmental determinism
• Possibilism• Polder
• Resources
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY “THE AGE OF MAN”
“…Our impact on the planet’s surface and atmosphere has become so powerful that scientists are considering changing the way we measure geologic time. Right now we’re officially living in the Holocene epoch, a particularly pleasant period that started when the last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. But some scientists argue that we’ve broken into a new epoch that they call the Anthropocene: the age of man. “Human dominance of biological, chemical and geological processes on Earth is already an undeniable reality,” writes Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize...“It’s no longer us against ‘Nature.’ Instead, it’s we who decide what nature is and what it will be.”
http://science.time.com/2012/03/07/anthropocene-why-you-should-get-used-to-the-age-of-man-and-woman/
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY “THE AGE OF MAN”
Population Cartogram—depicts night lights, major roads, railways, power lines, pipelines, overseas cables, air lines and shipping lanes
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY: CLIMATES
Climate: the long-term average weather condition at a particular location
**Vladimir Koppen: basis for divisions are seasonal precipitation, B climates are based on temperature and precipitation**
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY: BIOMES
Biomes: “plant communities”• Forest: trees form continuous canopy• Savanna: mixture of grass and trees• Grassland: grass covered (little precipitation)• Desert: little vegetation
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CULTURAL ECOLOGY: SOIL & LANDFORMS
• Soils—10 orders, 12,000 types• Erosion
• Solutions...reduced plowing, choice of plants whose roots protect soil, and avoiding planting on steep slopes
• Depletion of Nutrients• Solutions…certain plants are
known to replenish soil, and adding fertilizers can offset depletion
• Landforms—• Helps to explain population
distribution and choice of economic activities
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SCALE: “LOCAL TO GLOBAL”
• Globalization—a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope
• Globalization of Economy:• Global: Interconnected and
interdependent (Transnational Corporations)
• Local: Increasing specialization• Globalization of Culture:
• Global: We are becoming more culturally uniform (ie. fast food, hotels, cars, cell phones, etc.)
• Local: Some are fighting to retain their local culture
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SPACE• Distribution—How are
things arranged? Where are they located?• DENSITY: frequency with
which something occurs in space • Arithmetic Density• Physiological Density• Agricultural Density
• CONCENTRATION: extent of a feature’s spread over space
• PATTERN: geometric arrangement of objects in space
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SPACE: DENSITY AND CONCENTRATION
By 2007, U.S. baseball teams were much more dispersed than in 1952, and
their number and density at a national level had increased.
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CONNECTIONS• CONNECTIONS—How are
places and regions connected? How do they interact?• SPATIAL
INTERACTION• Networks &
transportation systems
• Space-Time Compression
• Distance DecayThe times required to cross the Atlantic, or orbitthe earth, illustrate how transport improvementshave shrunk the world. (1492-1962)
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CONNECTIONS: DIFFUSION
• Relocation Diffusion
• Expansion Diffusion• Hierarchical –through
a social or physical hierarchy
• Contagious—from person to person
• Stimulus—spread of an underlying idea