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1. This reading guide provides questions to accompany Chapter 1 of the AP HuG geography textbook. It covers topics like how geography studies the interrelationships between places and landscapes, the development of geography as an academic discipline by ancient Greeks, and the different subfields of geography that focus on environments, societies, or their interactions. It also introduces fundamental geographic concepts like location, distance, scale, regions, and maps.
2. Maps are the primary tools geographers use to represent and analyze spatial patterns and relationships. Different map projections all distort space to some degree when representing the curved Earth on a flat surface. Key elements like latitude, longitude, and scale allow geographers to locate places and measure distances on maps.
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1. This reading guide provides questions to accompany Chapter 1 of the AP HuG geography textbook. It covers topics like how geography studies the interrelationships between places and landscapes, the development of geography as an academic discipline by ancient Greeks, and the different subfields of geography that focus on environments, societies, or their interactions. It also introduces fundamental geographic concepts like location, distance, scale, regions, and maps.
2. Maps are the primary tools geographers use to represent and analyze spatial patterns and relationships. Different map projections all distort space to some degree when representing the curved Earth on a flat surface. Key elements like latitude, longitude, and scale allow geographers to locate places and measure distances on maps.
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1. This reading guide provides questions to accompany Chapter 1 of the AP HuG geography textbook. It covers topics like how geography studies the interrelationships between places and landscapes, the development of geography as an academic discipline by ancient Greeks, and the different subfields of geography that focus on environments, societies, or their interactions. It also introduces fundamental geographic concepts like location, distance, scale, regions, and maps.
2. Maps are the primary tools geographers use to represent and analyze spatial patterns and relationships. Different map projections all distort space to some degree when representing the curved Earth on a flat surface. Key elements like latitude, longitude, and scale allow geographers to locate places and measure distances on maps.
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1. Does it make a difference where things are located?
2. Geographers are interested in how things are ________________________ in different regions. - What does interrelated mean? 3. Geographic awareness is present in your own _____________ life. - What examples are given? 4. Geography is about space & the ___________________ ____ _________________. 5. Which ancient group developed the discipline of geography? - What did the Greeks global grid involve? 6. What other ancient peoples were interested in geography? 7. ______________________ geographers focus on one or a few related aspects of environment & human societies; _______________________ geographers focus on the natural environment; ___________________ geography emphasizes people & their relationships with the space they occupy. 8. What common questions will all geographers ask? 9. __________________ space is physically real with measurable extent & definitive ___________________. ____________________ space is perceptual & not permanent. - Define perceptual 10. A sense of place is the _______________________ we have to specific locations & their attributes. 11. The sense of place is reinforced by recognized ______________ & _________________ distinctiveness. 12. __________________ is the starting point of geographic study. ____________________ location is the identification of a place by a system of ______________________. Absolute location is __________________ to each place & is _________________________ of other characteristics. _____________________ location is the position of a place in relation to other places & _______________________. 13. ___________ goes with absolute location & refers to _________________ & ___________________ attributes of a place. ____________________ goes with relative location & refers to the relation of a place to items of significance 14. ____________________ direction is based on the points of North, South, East, & West. ___________________ directions are culturally based directional references. 15. ____________________ distance is the spatial separation between 2 points on earth. ___________________ distance refers to other, more understandable units of measuring distance. 16. Scale tells us the mathematical relationship between the size of an area on a ___________ & ___________ size of the mapped area. - Why must scale be represented on maps? 17. __________________ characteristics of a place could include: _______________ & soil, water supplies, _________________, etc.... Human action occurs in these ___________________ landscapes. The physical environment presents ______________________ & ______________________ humans must deal with. Virtually every ____________ activity leaves its _________________ on an area.
18. A ___________________ landscape is the ___________________ expression of human __________________.
19. The built landscape is the product of _____________ ______________ & has increasingly replaced the ________________ landscape. 20. Interaction between places __________________ in intensity & frequency as distance between them ________________. (distance decay) 21. Connectivity is a concept implying all the _____________________ & ____________________ ways places are connected. - Examples? 22. Spatial ____________________ is the process of dispersion of an ____________ or an ____________ from a _____________ of origin to more _______________ points with which its directly or indirectly connected. - In what ways are diffusion rates affected? 23. When a relationship is _________________, it defines arithmetic _________________; density is the number of items & observations within a defined area. 24. Dispersion is the amount of _________________ of a phenomenon over an ___________; how far things are ________________ _________. If they are close together, they are ____________________ (agglomerated). If they are spread out, they are ________________________ (scattered). 25. Most ___________________ cities have streets displaying a ____________ pattern as a result of the Ordinance of ___________. - What other countries use this? Why are geometrical patterns of distribution useful? 26. Spatial _____________________ permit us to recognize & define ______________, which are earth areas that display elements of ____________________ ______________________ & difference from surrounding areas. - What does uniformity mean? 27. Regions may be either __________________, functional, or _____________________. A functional region as a _________ area where characterizing features are most clearly defined; ________________ in prominence toward the regions _________________. Perceptual regions reflect _________________ & ________________ rather than objective ___________; may be more meaningful to people - What does periphery mean? 28. Maps are tools to identify __________________ & analyze their ________________ _________________ is a vital element of every map. The smaller the scale, the larger area if covers & less detailed. The larger the scale, the smaller the area & more detailed. ______________ -scale maps show small areas; ________________-scale maps how large areas. 29. All map __________________ are methods chosen to represent the earths curved surface as a ___________ ____________, and they all distort. - What does distort mean? 30. Maps are geographers primary tools of _______________ _______________. Key reference points in the grid system are the North & South Poles & the Prime Meridian. Latitude measures distance North & South of the equator & run East to West. Longtitude measures distance East & West of the prime meridian & are represented in North/South lines. 31. Maps can distort & _________ as readily as they can convey spatial data or ____________ __________________. 32. GIS ___________ ___________ may contain place-specific information collected & published by the U.S. Census _______________. 33. Maps & _______________ are the devices geographers use to achieve _______________ & separate the study of spatial systems.