Topic

Enduring

Understanding

Learning

Essential Knowledge

Objective

Key Concepts/

Vocab

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1.1

Introductio n to Maps

1.2

Geographic Data

Geographers use maps and data to depict relationships of time, space,

and scale.

Geographers use maps and data to depict relationships of time, space,

and scale.

Identify types

Types of maps include reference maps and

of maps, the

thematic maps.

types of

information

Types of spatial patterns represented on

presented in

maps include absolute and relative

maps, and

distance and direction, clustering,

different kinds

dispersal, and elevation.

of spatial

patterns and

All maps are selective in information; map

relationships

projections inevitably distort spatial

portrayed in

relationships in shape, area, distance, and

maps.

direction.

Identify

Data may be gathered in the field by

different

organizations or by individuals.

methods of

geographic

Geospatial technologies include

data collection.

geographic information systems (GIS),

satellite navigation systems, remote

sensing, and online mapping and

visualization.

Spatial information can come from written

accounts in the form of field observations,

media reports, travel narratives, policy

documents, personal interviews, landscape

analysis, and photographic interpretation.

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1.3 The

Power of

Geographic Data

Geographers

use maps and data to depict relationships of time, space,

and scale.

Explain the

Geospatial and geographical

geographical

data, including census data and

effects of

satellite imagery, are used at all

decisions made

scales for personal, business

using

and organizational, and

geographical

governmental decisionmaking

information.

purposes.

1.4 Spatial

Concepts

Geographers

analyze

relationships

among and

between places to reveal

important

spatial

patterns.

Define major

Spatial concepts include

geographic

absolute and relative location,

concepts that

space, place, flows, distance

illustrate spatial

decay, time-space

relationships.

compression, and pattern.

1.5

Human–Env ironmental

Interaction

Geographers

analyze

relationships

among and

between places to reveal

important

spatial

patterns.

Explain how

Concepts of nature and society

major

include sustainability, natural

geographic

resources, and land use.

concepts

illustrate spatial

Theories regarding the

relationships.

interaction of the natural

environment with human

societies have evolved from

environmental determinism to

possibilism.

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1.6 Scales

of Analysis

Geographers

analyze

relationships

among and

between places to reveal

important

spatial

patterns.

Define scales

Scales of analysis include global,

of analysis

regional, national, and local.

used by

geographers.

Patterns and processes at

different scales reveal variations

Explain what

in, and different interpretations of,

scales of

data.

analysis reveal.

1.7

Regional

Analysis

Geographers

analyze

complex issues and

relationships

with a

distinctively

spatial

perspective.

Describe

Regions are defined on the basis

different ways

of one or more unifying

that

characteristics or on patterns of

geographers

activity.

define regions.

Types of regions include formal,

functional, and

perceptual/vernacular.

Regional boundaries are

transitional and often contested

and overlapping.

Geographers apply regional

analysis at local, national, and

global scales.