What is human geography?Delaney Johnson

Alicia FrostSamantha Priddy

Main Ideas

• “Human geography is the study of human activities on earth’s surface.” (Marsh, Meredith)

• The first scholars began studying 3,000 years ago. (Marsh, Meredith)

• Three major fields: Human geography, physical geography, and environmental geography. (Marsh, Meredith)

• Spatial perspective helps geographers look at how the world changes over space. (Marsh, Meredith)

• No matter what area of human geography one studies, they will all use spatial perspective to better understand the world we live in. (Marsh, Meredith)

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Subtopics of Human Geography (Marsh, Meredith)

Cultural Geography•Anthropology•Sociology•History

Political Geography•Political Science

Population Geography•Demography

Urban Geography•Urban Studies•Urban Social Science Planning

Social Geography•Sociology•Language•Religious Studies

Economic Geography•Regional economics•Economics

Behavioral Geography•Psychology•Economics

(Geography)

Vocabulary (Marsh, Meredith)

• Anthropogenic• Cultural ecology• Cultural landscape• Earth system science• Eratosthenes• Geographical

Information Systems• Idiographic• George Perkins Marsh

• Nomothetic• W.D. Pattison• Ptolemy• Remote sensing• Carl Sauer• Spatial perspective• Systematic geography• Thematic layers• Vernacular regions

People Eratosthenes- head librarian at

Alexandria during the third century B.C. ; he was one of the first cartographers. He computed an accurate measurement of the earth’s circumference. Coined the word “geography”. (Marsh, Meredith)

Ptolemy- Roman geography/astronomer/author, wrote Guide to Geography which had maps using latitude and longitude. (Marsh, Meredith)

(Eratosthenes)

(Sun)

People cont. George Perkins Marsh-

inventor/diplomat/politician/scholar; wrote Man and Nature, or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, and he provided the first description of how nature has been changed by humans. (Marsh, Meredith)

(Marsh, George)

Useful Sites

• www.studystack.com• www.geography.about.com• www.quizlet.com

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