GEOGRAPHY EXAM 1 (Part 2)

What is "the making of maps" called?

Definition: allows you to navigate your activity space with efficiency, predictability, and safety. (an impression of the regional layout)

Definition: special on-board scanners and television cameras transmit remotely sensed information to computers, on the surface, recording the expansion of deserts, shrinking of glaciers, & depletion of forests

Definition: Presenting on-screen information within seconds that would have taken months to assemble just a few decades ago (earthbound comps possess ever-expanding capabilities not only to organize information but also display it graphically)

Often described as "the most interdisciplinary of disciplines", its also linked to many other fields (i.e. economics, political science)

1) Economics is about ____? 2) Psychology is about ___? 3) Political science is about ____? and 4) GEOGRAPHY is about ____?

There prevails a particular oder, regularity, & predictability about the ways in which space is organized. (sometimes its the work of human beings, sometimes its the work of nature),,but there are often particular patterns. Geographers consider these spatial patterns crucial to how we live and howe we organize our societies ...what is this called??

Geography is an interest in the relationships between _____ and the _____ environment.