Geographic Concepts

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What features would you see if I asked you to look at a political map?

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Political boundaries of nations, states, and territories

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What features would you see if I asked you to look at a physical map?

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Physical characteristics like mountains and oceans

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What features would you see if I asked you to look at a climate map?

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Climate categories like desert and rainforest

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What is the geographic concept of place?

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parts of the Earth’s surface that are identified and given meaning by people

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What is the geographic concept of space?

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ways people organize and manage the spaces that we live in

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What is the geographic concept of environment?

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the important interrelationships between humans and the environment

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What is the geographic concept of interconnection?

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the idea that people and organizations in places are interconnected with other places

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What is the geographic concept of scale?

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the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels

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What is the geographic concept of change?

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investigation of geographical phenomena and how places and spaces have developed over time

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What is the literal definition of the term "geography"?

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Study of earth