Students will be given a Guided Reading Packet with every chapter. Students should answer each question and study the packet for exam which is given every two weeks. You will find a sample Guided Reading below.
Chapter 1 Intro to Human Geography
Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger pages 1-8
What are the major crops grown in the agricultural fields of Kenya?
How much of the world is seriously malnourished?
What are the major causes of malnourishment?
Why is Bangladesh poor and malnourished and Norway wealthy and well-fed?
What does hunger depend on in Kenya?
Who owns the most productive farmland in Kenya?
Who owns the most unproductive farmland in Kenya?
What are the complexities of globalization that contribute to the malnourishment of the Kenyan peoples?
What do field geographers do out in the field?
I. What is Human Geography? 8-9
What is the focus of the field of human geography?
What two areas of technology have made people and places more interconnected?
What two areas have made people and places look more alike?
Define homogeneity. (hint-look it up)
Define globalization (Glossary pg. A-22)
What are the “blanket” and the “local” in globalization.
Why do geographers use the concept of scale?
Why is the concept of globalization integrated into this textbook?
II. What are Geographic Questions? 9-15
What are the major fields of study in geography?
What is meant by the geographic inquiry?
Define spatial perspective? (Glossary A-28)
IIA. Maps in the Time of Cholera Pandemics 9-11
Define medical geography. (Glossary A-24)
Define pandemic. (Glossary A-25)
What is cholera?
When and where did the first cholera pandemic spread?
When and where did the second cholera pandemic spread?
When and where did the third cholera pandemic spread?
What area of London was hard hit with cholera in 1850?
What steps did Dr. Snow use to pinpoint the source of cholera in the Soho district of London?
How does cholera get into any given area?
Where do you expect to find cholera today?
Where did cholera strike in the 20th century? 21st century
IIB. The Spatial Perspective 11-15
Why is understanding history not just about memorizing dates?
What is considered a critical element to understanding history and why?
Define spatial perspective. (glossary A-28)
IIB1. The Five Themes 11-13
What is location?
Define locational theory (glossary A-24)
What is human environment interaction?
How does understanding the regional geography of a place help us?
What do all places on the surface of the earth have?
Define “sense of place” (glossary A-28)
What is perception of place?
What does the 5th theme of movement refer to in geography?
What does spatial interaction depend on?
What does accessibility mean?
What does connectivity mean?
IIB2. Cultural Landscape 13-15
How do geographers use the term landscape?
What is sequent occupance?
Why is the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam does considered an example of sequent occupance?
III. Why do Geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us? 15-21
What is cartography?
What do reference maps show?
What do thematic maps show?
What is GPS?
What is geocaching?
Explain the term “relative location.”
IIIA. Mental Maps 17
Define mental maps?
What is our “activity space”?
How do men and women learn new places?
IIIB. Generalization in Maps 17
What do all maps do?
What do generalized maps help us see and not see?
How is scale used in generalized maps?
IIIC. Remote Sensing and GIS 17-21
How do geographers use remote sensing to monitor the earth?
What is Google earth?
What is GIS?
How do geographers use GIS?
How do political geographers use GIS?
What kind of industries do students with geography degrees work?
How does GIS help geographers answer complicated questions?
What is GISci?
IV. Why are Geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
How do geographers study places using scale?
Explain the two meanings of scale?
What does the study of geographic phenomenon at scale tell us?
Why must geographers be wary of researchers making generalizations about people or a place at a particular scale?
What does it mean to rescale?
IVA. Regions 23-28
Why do geographers divide the world into regions?
What constitutes a region in geography?
What is a formal region?
What are the two shared traits found in formal regions?
How is a functional region defined?
What are perceptual regions?
What are the perceptions based on?
How does major news events help create perceptual regions?
IVA1. Perceptual Regions in the United States 27-28
Who is Wilbur Zelinsky and what did he do?
How are perceptual regions defined?
How is the south defined culturally?
IVB. Culture 28-29
What is the meaning of culture?
What is a culture trait?
Give an example of a culture trait.
How do the Sikhs wear their turbans?
What is a culture complex?
Explain a culture hearth.
IVC. Connectedness through diffusion (29)
What is cultural diffusion?
What determines whether diffusion of a cultural trait occurs?
What happens as a cultural trait gets further away from the cultural hearth?
Explain time-distance decay in the diffusion process of cultural traits?
What types of cultural traits are unlikely to diffuse?
What are cultural barriers?
IVC1. Expansion Diffusion 30-31
Explain expansion diffusion.
Explain contagious diffusion.
Give two examples from the book of contagious diffusion.
What sport caused the Phiten company to expand from the U.S. to Japan?
Explain hierarchical diffusion.
What example does the book offer of hierarchical diffusion.
Explain stimulus diffusion.
What moves in expansion diffusion and what stays in place?
IVC2. Relocation Diffusion 31
How does relocation diffusion occur most frequently?
Explain relocation diffusion.
V. What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions? 32-33
What are geographic concepts?
What is geography not?
VA. Rejection of Environmental Determinism 32-33
What is environmental determinism?
What examples does the text use for environmental determinism?
What exceptions have some modern human geographer found to dispute the theory or environmental determinism?
What do most geographers agree on regarding the environment and human development?
VB. Possibilism 33
Explain the doctrine of Possibilism.
What are some of the limitations to Possibilism?
Explain cultural ecology.
What is political ecology?
VC. Today’s Human Geography 33
What is the focus of human geography today?
Why does cultural geography stand out in the study of human geography?
What are some of the careers that human geographers pursue?
Chapter 1 Intro to Human Geography
Field Note: Awakening to World Hunger pages 1-8
What are the major crops grown in the agricultural fields of Kenya?
How much of the world is seriously malnourished?
What are the major causes of malnourishment?
Why is Bangladesh poor and malnourished and Norway wealthy and well-fed?
What does hunger depend on in Kenya?
Who owns the most productive farmland in Kenya?
Who owns the most unproductive farmland in Kenya?
What are the complexities of globalization that contribute to the malnourishment of the Kenyan peoples?
What do field geographers do out in the field?
I. What is Human Geography? 8-9
What is the focus of the field of human geography?
What two areas of technology have made people and places more interconnected?
What two areas have made people and places look more alike?
Define homogeneity. (hint-look it up)
Define globalization (Glossary pg. A-22)
What are the “blanket” and the “local” in globalization.
Why do geographers use the concept of scale?
Why is the concept of globalization integrated into this textbook?
II. What are Geographic Questions? 9-15
What are the major fields of study in geography?
What is meant by the geographic inquiry?
Define spatial perspective? (Glossary A-28)
IIA. Maps in the Time of Cholera Pandemics 9-11
Define medical geography. (Glossary A-24)
Define pandemic. (Glossary A-25)
What is cholera?
When and where did the first cholera pandemic spread?
When and where did the second cholera pandemic spread?
When and where did the third cholera pandemic spread?
What area of London was hard hit with cholera in 1850?
What steps did Dr. Snow use to pinpoint the source of cholera in the Soho district of London?
How does cholera get into any given area?
Where do you expect to find cholera today?
Where did cholera strike in the 20th century? 21st century
IIB. The Spatial Perspective 11-15
Why is understanding history not just about memorizing dates?
What is considered a critical element to understanding history and why?
Define spatial perspective. (glossary A-28)
IIB1. The Five Themes 11-13
What is location?
Define locational theory (glossary A-24)
What is human environment interaction?
How does understanding the regional geography of a place help us?
What do all places on the surface of the earth have?
Define “sense of place” (glossary A-28)
What is perception of place?
What does the 5th theme of movement refer to in geography?
What does spatial interaction depend on?
What does accessibility mean?
What does connectivity mean?
IIB2. Cultural Landscape 13-15
How do geographers use the term landscape?
What is sequent occupance?
Why is the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam does considered an example of sequent occupance?
III. Why do Geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us? 15-21
What is cartography?
What do reference maps show?
What do thematic maps show?
What is GPS?
What is geocaching?
Explain the term “relative location.”
IIIA. Mental Maps 17
Define mental maps?
What is our “activity space”?
How do men and women learn new places?
IIIB. Generalization in Maps 17
What do all maps do?
What do generalized maps help us see and not see?
How is scale used in generalized maps?
IIIC. Remote Sensing and GIS 17-21
How do geographers use remote sensing to monitor the earth?
What is Google earth?
What is GIS?
How do geographers use GIS?
How do political geographers use GIS?
What kind of industries do students with geography degrees work?
How does GIS help geographers answer complicated questions?
What is GISci?
IV. Why are Geographers concerned with scale and connectedness?
How do geographers study places using scale?
Explain the two meanings of scale?
What does the study of geographic phenomenon at scale tell us?
Why must geographers be wary of researchers making generalizations about people or a place at a particular scale?
What does it mean to rescale?
IVA. Regions 23-28
Why do geographers divide the world into regions?
What constitutes a region in geography?
What is a formal region?
What are the two shared traits found in formal regions?
How is a functional region defined?
What are perceptual regions?
What are the perceptions based on?
How does major news events help create perceptual regions?
IVA1. Perceptual Regions in the United States 27-28
Who is Wilbur Zelinsky and what did he do?
How are perceptual regions defined?
How is the south defined culturally?
IVB. Culture 28-29
What is the meaning of culture?
What is a culture trait?
Give an example of a culture trait.
How do the Sikhs wear their turbans?
What is a culture complex?
Explain a culture hearth.
IVC. Connectedness through diffusion (29)
What is cultural diffusion?
What determines whether diffusion of a cultural trait occurs?
What happens as a cultural trait gets further away from the cultural hearth?
Explain time-distance decay in the diffusion process of cultural traits?
What types of cultural traits are unlikely to diffuse?
What are cultural barriers?
IVC1. Expansion Diffusion 30-31
Explain expansion diffusion.
Explain contagious diffusion.
Give two examples from the book of contagious diffusion.
What sport caused the Phiten company to expand from the U.S. to Japan?
Explain hierarchical diffusion.
What example does the book offer of hierarchical diffusion.
Explain stimulus diffusion.
What moves in expansion diffusion and what stays in place?
IVC2. Relocation Diffusion 31
How does relocation diffusion occur most frequently?
Explain relocation diffusion.
V. What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions? 32-33
What are geographic concepts?
What is geography not?
VA. Rejection of Environmental Determinism 32-33
What is environmental determinism?
What examples does the text use for environmental determinism?
What exceptions have some modern human geographer found to dispute the theory or environmental determinism?
What do most geographers agree on regarding the environment and human development?
VB. Possibilism 33
Explain the doctrine of Possibilism.
What are some of the limitations to Possibilism?
Explain cultural ecology.
What is political ecology?
VC. Today’s Human Geography 33
What is the focus of human geography today?
Why does cultural geography stand out in the study of human geography?
What are some of the careers that human geographers pursue?
