Geographic Concepts

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

• Political boundaries of nations, states, and territories

• Physical characteristics like mountains and oceans

• Climate categories like desert and rainforest

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

• Political boundaries of nations, states, and territories

• Climate categories like desert and rainforest

• Physical characteristics like mountains and oceans

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

• Political boundaries of nations, states, and territories

• Physical characteristics like mountains and oceans

• Climate categories like desert and rainforest

What is the geographic concept of place?

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

• individual characteristics of places

• culture, population density, economy, technology, values and environmental world views

What is the geographic concept of space?

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

• the significance of the environment in human life

• ways people organize and manage the spaces that we live in

What is the geographic concept of environment?

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

• the important interrelationships between humans and the environment

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

What is the geographic concept of interconnection?

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

• the important interrelationships between humans and environment

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

What is the geographic concept of scale?

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

• the capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other living creatures into the future

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

What is the geographic concept of change?

• a goal and a way of thinking about how to progress towards that goal

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

• the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationships between humans and the environment

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

• Study of earth

• Study of life

• Study of gems