Human Geography in Action: Ch 1 True Maps/False Maps.A New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography.Defining Geography: What is Where, Why There, and Why Care?.Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography.Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and satellite imagery.Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and online maps.How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places.How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes.How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places.How to use and think about maps and geospatial data.Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issues.

Unit I Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives.

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