GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Interdependence, Space, Scale, Diffusion

Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Greiner pp. 15-33
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): Spatial diffusion, relocation diffusion, contagious diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, stimulus diffusion, globalization, spatial interaction, complementarity, transferability, intervening opportunity, distance decay, time-space convergence, geographic scale, map scale, observational scale, remote sensing, global positioning system, Geographic Information System (GIS)
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:

Lecture Outline

 

Scale and Interdependence

What is Scale?

What is Space?

Absolute space

Relative/Social Space

Spatiality

Describing Distribution across space

• Density
• Concentration--clustered or dispersed
• Pattern (and process)

Spatial Interaction

Distance Decay

Examples

West Nile Virus Maps

Human-- 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Birds -- 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Animated Maps

Irrigation in Nebraska

Geography and Maps

• Geographic Information Systems 
• Remote Sensing
• GPS
• Online GIS (Example Brisbane Flood Map)

The Geographic Imagination

What was the main point of today's lecture?

Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):

One thing I did not fully understand today is:

What did I learn today that I did not know before?