Introduction to Geography

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Introduction to Geography
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• http//youtube.com/watch?vxHWTLA8WecI
• YouTube - Is Europe a country?

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Very few really seek knowledge in this world.
Mortal or immortal few really ask. On the
contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the
answers they have already shaped in their own
minds justification, explanations, forms of
consolation without which they cannot go on. To
really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind.
The answer may annihilate the question and the
questioner. The Vampire Marius, Anne Rice,
The Vampire Lestat
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Critical Thinking Guidelines

• What is the purpose of what you are learning?
• What questions are raised and which are you
  addressing in your notes, reading and classroom
  participation?
• What information are you using to answer the
  questions?
• What inferences and conclusions can you reach
  with the information?
• What then is the main idea? Can you explain the
  main idea?

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• What are your assumptions? What are you taking
  for granted?
• What are the implications of the conclusions and
  concepts you are learning?
• From what point of view are you looking at the
  issue? Is there another point of view?
• (Source Paul, Richard and Linda Elder (2006) The
  Foundation for Critical Thinking.)

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How to Think Within the Ideas of Geography

• Recognize where your ideas come from.
• Be able to think within alternative world views.
• Recognize that geography is both a physical and
  social science.
• Avoid close mindedness.
• Question your ideas!
• Recognize that you may be thinking in a new way!

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The Five Themes of Geography

• Location
• Place
• Human/Environment Interaction
• Movement
• Region

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Region An area of the earths surface that
contains homogenous physical or cultural
characteristics.
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• http//video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/s
  cience/technology-sci/gis_journey.html

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What is Culture?

• Cultural Groups
• Ethnic Groups
• Why is Cultural Diversity Important?

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• What is Religion?
• What is Secularism?

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Population
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Population Pyramids
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Population Terms to Know

• Crude Birth Rate
• Crude Death Rate
• Natural Increase Rate
• Infant Mortality Rate
• Life expectancy
• Fertility Rate
• Urbanization Rates

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Demographic Transition Model
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Gender Issues?

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• What is Race?
• What is Racism?

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Globalization

• Multi-National Corporations
• Tariffs, Import Quotas and Capital Controls
• Regional Trade Blocs
• United Nations
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• World Bank
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

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Sectors of the Economy

• Primary or Extractive Sector
• Secondary Sector
• Tertiary or Service Sector
• Quaternary

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• Formal Economy
• Informal Economy

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• Multinational corporations and international
  investment
• Much like colonizers, multinational corporations
  have the ability to affect the social, economic,
  and political affairs of countries where they
  invest (neocolonialism?).
• What are the positive and negative effects of
  international investment?
• Should goods and services move freely across all
  countries without any restrictions? Support your
  argument.
• What do critics and proponents say about this?

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Important Technological Revolutions

• Agricultural Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Information Technology?

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Human Well Being Table

• Gross Domestic Product (per capita) GDP
• United Nations Human Development Index (HDI)
• UN Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)

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Geopolitics

• What is a state?
• What is a nation?

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Physical Processes

• Pangaea

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• Plate tectonics

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• Internal
• Processes
• Earthquakes,
• volcanoes etc.

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• External Processes
• Weathering, mass wasting, erosion

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Climate Air Pressure
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Precipitation
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Temperature
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• Orographic Precipitation

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