1. Chapter 1: Thinking Geographically: Key Issue 2
Why Is Each Point On Earth Unique?
1. Identify FOUR ways in which places can receive names:
2. Define site:
3. Describe how humans have modified the site of New York City’s Manhattan Island.
4. What role do familiar places have in understanding situation of unfamiliar places?
5. A region is an ____________________ of ______________________ defined by one or more
__________________________
6. One contemporary (current) approach to studying the cultural landscape is called the regional studies
approach. What do geographers who adopt this view believe regarding regions?
7. Geographers using the regional studies approach argue that distinctive landscapes of different regions
result from what two things?
8. How does a geographer conclude that two (or more) phenomena are “spatially associated,” that is, that they
bear some sort of cause and effect relationship?
9. How many major types of climates do geographers identify?
10. In what major way does climate influence human activities? (Give an example)
11. List the four major biomes, or major plant communities, found naturally on earth.
12. What are the two major problems with which geographers are concerned as far as soil is concerned?
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2. 13. Complete the two case studies which describe human modifications of, and adaptations to, the local
environment. To do so, annotate the blank maps and bullet in brief notes to the right of each.
A) THE NETHERLANDS
B) FLORIDA
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Feed into the printer upside down.
Glue this area and paste into the notebook.

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This page will be copied from the board under the flap of the handout for
Chapter 1: Key Issue 2. Write the prompt on the page and then answer it. Make
sure to leave space to glue in the guided reading assignment.
Write a paragraph that explains how geographers have changed how they view the way in which people interact
with their environment (known as cultural ecology). In your paragraph, please use the terms environmental
determinism and possiblism.