AP Human Geography Ch 1 Outline
What is Human Geography?
Human geography- how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world.
Advances in communication and transportation technologies are making places and people become more interconnected.
100 years ago, fastest transportation was the steamship, railroad, and horse.
200 countries, diverse world.
Globalization- set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders; set of outcomes felt from these global processes
Globalization occur at a world scale.
What happens at other scales (individual, local, regional, national) helps create the process of globalization and shape the outcomes of globalization/change human geography.
What are Geographic Questions?
These questions study human phenomena such as language, religion, and identity, and physical phenomena, such as landforms, climate, and environmental change.
Physical geography- the study of physical phenomena on Earth.
Spatial arrangement- how things are laid out, organized, arranged on Earth, how they appear on landscape.
Spatial distribution maps are used to find a pattern.
Maps in the time of Cholera Pandemics
Medical geography- mapping distribution of a disease (can find cause).
Cholera epidemics (3 of them) lasted from 1826-1862.
Pandemic- worldwide outbreak of a disease.
1854 Dr. John Snow mapped cases of cholera.
Dr. Snow mapped area’s water pumps and marked residence of cholera victims.
Most of them died around a Soho water pump, so they removed the handle and the new cases being reported fell to nearly zero.
Epidemic- regional outbreak of a disease.
Hygiene prevents Cholera, but contaminated waters are in a lot of the tropic cities of the world.
The Spatial Perspective
Spatial perspective -> understand
Human geography- how people make places, how we organize space and society, how we interact with each other in places and across space, and how we make sense of others and ourselves in our localities, regions, and the world.
Advances in communication and transportation technologies are making places and people become more interconnected.
100 years ago, fastest transportation was the steamship, railroad, and horse.
200 countries, diverse world.
Globalization- set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders; set of outcomes felt from these global processes
Globalization occur at a world scale.
What happens at other scales (individual, local, regional, national) helps create the process of globalization and shape the outcomes of globalization/change human geography.
What are Geographic Questions?
These questions study human phenomena such as language, religion, and identity, and physical phenomena, such as landforms, climate, and environmental change.
Physical geography- the study of physical phenomena on Earth.
Spatial arrangement- how things are laid out, organized, arranged on Earth, how they appear on landscape.
Spatial distribution maps are used to find a pattern.
Maps in the time of Cholera Pandemics
Medical geography- mapping distribution of a disease (can find cause).
Cholera epidemics (3 of them) lasted from 1826-1862.
Pandemic- worldwide outbreak of a disease.
1854 Dr. John Snow mapped cases of cholera.
Dr. Snow mapped area’s water pumps and marked residence of cholera victims.
Most of them died around a Soho water pump, so they removed the handle and the new cases being reported fell to nearly zero.
Epidemic- regional outbreak of a disease.
Hygiene prevents Cholera, but contaminated waters are in a lot of the tropic cities of the world.
The Spatial Perspective
Spatial perspective -> understand