GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2010
Lecture Outline

Interdependence, Space, Scale, Diffusion

Date: September 6, 2010
Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Rubenstein pp. 16-25
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): Scale, Globalization, Space, distribution, density, concentration, pattern, interconnection, spatial interaction, distance decay, space-time compression, diffusion, relocation diffusion, expansion diffusion, hierarchical diffusion, contagious diffusion, stimulus diffusion.
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

After Lecture

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?