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5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY

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There are 5 Themes of Geography MOVEMENT ? The movement of: People Products Ideas http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-you-decide-where-to- go-in-a-zombie-apocalypse-david-hunter REGION ? Basically: A region is an how you lump an area with other areas ? Formal Regions are those defined by governmental or administrative boundaries or similar characteristics. What is an example of a formal region? ? Functional Regions are those defined by a function ? Vernacular Regions are those loosely defined by people's perception. Example: What is ?The South? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVXiM_u_UM HUMAN/ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTION ? Humans adapt to the environment. - In Alaska there is 24 hour sunshine for 2-3 months of the year ? Humans modify the environment.

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THE FOUR TRADITIONS OF GEOGRAPHY* WILLIAM D. PATTISON San Fernando Valley State College In 1905, one year after professional geography in this country achieved full social identity through the founding of the Association of American Geographers, William Morris Davis responded to a familiar suspicion that geography is simply an undisciplined ?omnium-gatherum? by describing an approach that as he saw it imparts a ?geographical quality? to some knowledge and accounts for the absence of the quality elsewhere.1 Davis spoke as president of the AAG. He set an example that was followed by more than one president of that organization. An enduring official concern led the AAG to publish, in 1939 and in 1959, monographs exclusively devoted to a
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