Geography: People, Places, and Patterns

Preface

Part One Introduction to Geography, Overview, Spatial Perspective
Section 1.1 What Is Geography?
Section 1.2 The Five Themes of Geography: It’s All Spatial

Part Two Human Geography, Culture, and Population
Section 2.1 The Spatial Variation of Culture and the Cultural Landscape
Section 2.2 Culture and Human Environment Interaction
Section 2.3 Ethnocentrism: Perception of People and Place
Section 2.4 Population Growth
Section 2.5 The Population Debate: Carrying Capacity

Part Three The Historical Geography of Settlement in the United States
Section 3.1 “Discovery ,” Columbus, and the Origins of Settlement
Section 3.2 Native Americans and the American Dream
Section 3.3 The Rectangular Land Survey

Part Four The Geography of Economic Development
Section 4.1 The Geography of Wealth and Poverty and the Uneven Spatial Distribution of Wealth
Section 4.2 Colonialism, Colonial Legacy , and Uneven Economic Development
Section 4.3 Political Ideology and Economic Policy

Part Five The Spatial Economy
Section 5.1 Major Components of the Spatial Economy and Location Theory
Section 5.2 De-Industrialization in the United States

Part Six Physical/Environmental Geography
Section 6.1 Overview of the Physical Environment
Section 6.2 Mapping: It’s All Spatial
Section 6.3 Processes That Shape the Earth
Section 6.4 Ecosystems, Biomes, and the Spatial Distribution of Organisms

Part Seven People and the Environment
Section 7.1 Water and Human Resource Use
Section 7.2 The Earth as a Playground: Culture, Consumerism, and Global Warming
Section 7.3 The Geography of Climate Change

Part Eight The Geography of Food and Human Health
Section 8.1 The Geography of Food: You Are Where You Eat
Section 8.2 U.S. Nutrition, Culture, Genetic Engineering and the Spatial Distribution of Disease

Part Nine World Regions
Section 9.1 The United States: A Geographic Perspective
Section 9.2 Europe: A Geographic Perspective
Section 9.3 North Africa/Southwest Asia: “The Middle East”
Section 9.4 Sub-Saharan Africa: A Geographic Perspective

Part Ten Assignments/Quizzes/Maps
Section 10.1 A Geographer’s Perspective (AGP)
10.1.1 Seeing the Space Around You
10.1.2 The American Dream
10.1.3 Europe: Spatial Diffusion of Music and Fashion
10.1.4 N Africa/SW Asia: “The Middle East”: Perception vs. Reality
10.1.5 Africa: The Colonial Legacy of Language
10.1.6 Human Alteration of the Natural Environment
10.1.7 A Current Event Through a Geographer’s Eyes
10.1.8 Truth in Advertising?: Geography as an Applied Science
Section 10.2 Economic Geography Essay
Section 10.3 Getting Involved: Geography in Action — Contacting Your Governmental Representative(s)
Section 10.4 Quiz Templates
Section 10.5 Regional Outline Maps
10.5.1 The World
10.5.2 North America
10.5.3 The United States
10.5.4 Michigan
10.5.5 Metropolitan Detroit
10.5.6 Europe
10.5.7 The Middle East
10.5.8 Africa
10.5.9 Asia
10.5.10 South America

Part Eleven Grade Recorder
Section 11.1 Grade Recorder: Keeping Track of Your Grades