14. Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE)
I was the first person
to demonstrate that
the Earth was
spherical.
15. Eratosthenes (3rd Century BCE)
I accurately calculated
the circumference of
the earth using
geometry and was the
first known person to
use the word
geography.
16.
17. Claudius Ptolemy (CE 90 – CE 168)
I wrote a book called
Geography and
designed the
forerunner to
longitude and
latitude lines.
18.
19. Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani al-Sabti
Al Idrisi (1099–1165)
I’m an Arabic
geographer who
worked for the King of
Sicily to create an
accurate
representation of the
world.
23. George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882)
I first described how
natural systems are
impacted by human
actions. I am considered
the first modern
environmentalist
24. Carl Sauer (1889-1975)
In 1925, I argued that
cultural landscapes, the
interactions between
people and their
environment, should be
the focus of geographic
study.
25. How did the maps change between
Eratosthenes and Ortelius? Why?
41. Qualitative Data
Examines cultural or regional Uses rigorous mathematical
geography. techniques to examine hard
Gathered through numerical data.
observations, interviews, and
the interpretations of texts.
Quantitative Data
42. Idiographic
Facts and Concepts that
figures unique are universally
to a particular applicable
place or
region
Nomothetic
76. “Latitude is the numbering
system that enumerates
parallels, circles drawn around
the globe parallel to the
equator and at right angles to
the meridians.”
77. Latitude
0° Latitude is the equator.
90° north latitude is the north
pole.
90° south latitude is the south
pole.
81. “The International Date Line is an
imaginary line on the surface of the
Earth, that runs from the north to
the south pole and demarcates one
calendar day from the next.”
82. A traveler crossing the
International Date Line
eastbound subtracts
one day, or 24 hours, so
that the calendar date
to the west of the line
is repeated.
97. For Your Consideration
Imagine that you are a researcher using GIS to
determine information. What is a question that
you might be able to answer using the
technologies available?
142. “Movement is the way that
people, products, information
and ideas move from one place
to another.”
143. Compare how long it would take you to get
from school to the mall (6.2 Miles) using
the following forms of transportation.
1) Walking (3.1 MPH)
2) Horse (15 MPH)
3) Car (45 MPH)
4) Helicopter (100 MPH)
144. How has the time it takes to travel
changed through the years? Why?
158. “The Gravity Model says that
the interaction between two
places is equal to the product
of the places’ population
divided by the square of their
distance apart.”
160. Insights from the Gravity Model
1) Larger cities have greater gravitational pull
than small ones.
2) Two large cities like Los Angeles and New York
can still pull on each other even with the
distance between them.
166. Core: The “most pure” area
that possesses all cultural
traits used to define a region.
Domain: The area in which the
culture is dominant but less
intense.
Sphere: The zone of outer
influence where people with
the culture traits can even be a
minority in another region.
187. How does the
big affect the
small?
What
characteristics
of the small are
Scale How does the
small affect the
characteristics
of the big? Asks big?
What
characteristics
of the big are
part of the
small?
188. How does your perception of cancer rates change
when you look at a country and state level map?
196. “Human-Environmental
Interaction is how humans
modify, adapt to, and depend
on their environment. Cultural
Ecology is the study of human-
environment relationships.”
197. Environmental Determinism
How a People have
physical the ability to
environment adjust to
causes social their
development. environment.
Possibilism
