UNIT 1
Geography Literally means: GEO and GRAPH
This is tied to the early history and means TO WRITE ABOUT THE EARTH
Two Major Study areas
Physical
Cultural
Graphically
Geographic Academic Tradition of Where and Why it's there, and what of it.
Physical Geography is an Academic Derivitive Geography
How has the contemporary character of academic geography emerged?
So where are the Jobs in Geography?
Jobs in Geography
Private and Government
Travel Tourism
Consultation
Medicine
Planning/Environmental
Conservation/Environmental
Mapping/GIS
GPS Global Positioning Systems
GIS Geographic Information Systems

Teaching
Educational Impacts
The Public's View: Gallop Polls and Carmen San Diego
The Five Themes
Regions
Place
Absolute Location
Movement
Human Environmental Interaction
The National Standards
Skill Sets
Asking Geographic Questions
Acquiring Geographic Information
Organizing Geographic Information
Analyzing Geographic Information
Answer Geographic Questions
The Essential Elements
THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS
PLACES AND REGIONS
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
HUMAN SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
THE USES OF GEOGRAPHY
The Standards
1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools and, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective
2. How to use Mental Maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context
3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places and environments on earth's surface.
4. The physical and human characteristic of place
5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
7. The physical processes that shape the patterns of earth's surface
8. The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on he earth's surface
9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on earth's surface
10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of earth's cultural mosaics
11. The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on earth's surface
12. The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement
13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth's surface
14. How human actions modify the physical environment
15. How physical systems affect human systems
16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources
17. How to apply geography to interpret the past
18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future
K-4 and the idea of place in the standards
4 The physical and human characteristic of place
Landforms, bodies of water, soil, vegetation, weather and climate
The human characteristics, population, settlement patterns, languages, ethnicity, nationality, and religious beliefs.
6 How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Describe places and regions in different ways as exemplified by being able to: make a poster or collage or use another mode of expression that reflects the student's PERCEPTION (mental map) of a place or region
K-5 and the idea of place in the standards
4 The physical and human characteristic of place
Use photographs to develop and test hypotheses about similarities and differences in cultural landscapes......
(Examples of Student's Work) Looking at Candy Bar Wrappers, The Kroger Experience
6 How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Read stories about young people in other cultures to determine what they perceive as beautiful or valuable in their countries landscapes (A letter from Indonesia)

The National Standards
Skill Sets
Asking Geographic Questions
Acquiring Geographic Information
Organizing Geographic Information
Analyzing Geographic Information
Answer Geographic Questions
The Essential Elements
THE WORLD IN SPATIAL TERMS
PLACES AND REGIONS
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
HUMAN SYSTEMS
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
THE USES OF GEOGRAPHY
The Standards
1. How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools and, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective
2. How to use Mental Maps to organize information about people, places, and environments in a spatial context
3. How to analyze the spatial organization of people, places and environments on earth's surface.
4. The physical and human characteristic of place
5. That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity
6. How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
7. The physical processes that shape the patterns of earth's surface
8. The characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on he earth's surface
9. The characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations on earth's surface
10. The characteristics, distribution, and complexity of earth's cultural mosaics
11. The patterns and networks of economic interdependence on earth's surface
12. The processes, patterns, and functions of human settlement
13. How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth's surface
14. How human actions modify the physical environment
15. How physical systems affect human systems
16. The changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources
17. How to apply geography to interpret the past
18. How to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future
K-4 and the idea of place in the standards
4 The physical and human characteristic of place
Landforms, bodies of water, soil, vegetation, weather and climate
The human characteristics, population, settlement patterns, languages, ethnicity, nationality, and religious beliefs.
6 How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Describe places and regions in different ways as exemplified by being able to: make a poster or collage or use another mode of expression that reflects the student's PERCEPTION (mental map) of a place or region
K-5 and the idea of place in the standards
4 The physical and human characteristic of place
Use photographs to develop and test hypotheses about similarities and differences in cultural landscapes......
(Examples of Student's Work) Looking at Candy Bar Wrappers, The Kroger Experience
6 How culture and experience influence people's perceptions of places and regions
Read stories about young people in other cultures to determine what they perceive as beautiful or valuable in their countries landscapes (A letter from Indonesia)

Oxygen exerts about 1/5
Humans are used to 3 pounds /sq inch Oxygen
Moisture in the Atmosphere 0 to 4% Water Vapour
Particulates

Geography of the Atmosphere
Structure of the Atmosphere
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE (Chart)
Density with Altitude half of the total weight of the atmosphere lies below 18,000 feet
Rate of Change of Temperature Definition of Weather and Climate

CONCEPTS:
1. As air rises it expands and when it falls it compresses
1. Cold Air (Holds Less Water Vapor than) facilitates condensation faster than Warm air.
2. Hot Air Rises and Cold air sinks.
3. Water and Land cool at different rates....
Land cools and heats faster than water.
4. Air that rises cools adiabatically and warms when decending.
5. High pressure is cold sinking air, Low Pressure is warm (relative) air
6. High pressure flows to low pressure
7. Air Masses can be wet dry cold or hot
Humans and The Atmosphere: