World Regions in Global Context Peoples, Places, and 世界各地的人地方和.pptVIP

* * World Regional Geography January 25, 2010 Reading: Marston Chapter 2 pages 58–71, 74-95 Goode’s World Atlas pages 145 - 157 Next Week: Map Quiz #1 Paper Topics Due No US/Canada Europe at night: May 16,1999 USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Geography Geology Physical Geomorphology Pedology Climatology Glaciology Hydrology Biogeography Ecology Oceanography Human Economic Geography Cultural Geography Historical Geography Political Geography Medical Geography Population Geography Transportation Geography Location Analysis How do geographers analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on earth’s surface? Geographers refer to both the features of Earth’s surface and activities that take place on Earth’s surface as phenomena. Physical: topographic, climate, vegetation. Human: cities, trade flows, spread of disease. Physical Human: resort planning and climate. Central to geography is the belief that there is pattern, regularity, and reason to the locations of physical and human phenomena on Earth’s surface and that there are spatial structures and spatial processes that give rise to them Why are these phenomena located in these places? How did they get here? Why is this pattern significant? How do geographers analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on earth’s surface? Description and analysis of patterns of spatial organization: Local Global Interdependence Spatial linkages: Human and physical How do physical processes in one place affect physical and human processes in other places? How do human decisions at one location affect human and physical processes in other locations? What patterns exist? The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth’s surface: Atmosphere Lithosphere Hydrosphere Biosphere The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth’s surface: How do various patterns in Earth’s physical processes combine to create unique ecosystem