Geography For DummiesGeography is more than just trivia, it can help you understand why we import or export certain products, predict climate change, and even show you where to place fire and police stations when planning a city. If you’re curious about the world and want to know more about this fascinating place, Geography For Dummies is a great place to start. Whether you’re sixteen or sixty, this fun and easy guide will help you make more sense of the world you live in. Geography For Dummies gives you the tools to interpret the Earth’s grid, read and interpret maps, and to appreciate the importance and implications of geographical features such as volcanoes and fault lines. Plus, you’ll see how erosion and weathering have and will change the earth’s surface and how it impacts people. You’ll get a firm hold of everything from the physical features of the world to political divisions, population, culture, and economics. You’ll also discover:
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Population Change | |
Natural increase | |
The demographic transition model | |
Making connections | |
Considering Overpopulation | |
NeoMalthusians | |
Cornucopians | |
Chapter 12 | |
Chapter 5 | |
Checking Out the Basic Map Components | |
Taking It to Scale | |
Going the distance | |
Comparing Earth at different scales | |
Topography | |
Spot heights | |
Contour lines | |
Using Symbols to Tell the Story | |
Line symbols | |
Area symbols | |
Sources for Pinpointing Objects | |
Nonphotographic imagery | |
Satellite monitoring | |
Getting Computerized | |
Part II | |
Chapter 6 | |
Inside Earth | |
Big Pieces of a Big Puzzle | |
Where have you gone Gondwanaland? | |
Puzzle solved | |
Earth Benedict? | |
Making Mountains Out of Molehills | |
Folding the crust | |
Whose fault is it? | |
A fourletter word | |
Shake Rattle and Roll | |
Splitsville in California | |
How earthquakes kill and maim | |
A matter of magnitude | |
Volcano Makers | |
The Ring of Fire | |
Categorizing Tectonic Processes | |
Chapter 7 | |
Getting Carried Away | |
Weathering the Earth | |
Wasting away | |
Changing the Landscape | |
Gravity transfer | |
Water | |
Glaciers | |
Wind | |
Chapter 8 | |
Global Water Supply | |
Those ice caps are really cool | |
Oceans seas gulfs and bays | |
Lakes | |
Oceans | |
The continental shelves | |
Claiming ocean ownership | |
Getting a rise out of oceans | |
Getting Fresh with Water | |
The stages of the water cycle | |
Going with the flow | |
Out of sight not out of mind | |
Good to the very last drop | |
Chapter 9 | |
Getting a Grip on Climate | |
Playing the Angles | |
Making hot and cold | |
Making rain and snow | |
The Reasons for the Seasons | |
Special lines of latitude | |
Defining the seasons | |
Special lines of latitude revisited | |
Hot or Cold? Adjust Your Altitude | |
Warming the atmosphere | |
Weighty matter | |
The lapse rate | |
Gaining Heat Losing Heat | |
Afternoon versus evening | |
Summer versus winter | |
Ocean Currents | |
Warm currents cold currents | |
El Niño and La Niña | |
Living Under Pressure | |
Pressure belts | |
Monsoons | |
Chapter 10 | |
Giving Class to Climates | |
Humid Tropical Climates | |
Tropical rainforest | |
Tropical monsoon | |
Savanna tropical wet and dry | |
Dry Climates | |
Desert | |
Semidesert steppe | |
Humid Mesothermal Climates | |
Mediterranean | |
Humid Microthermal Climates | |
Humid continental | |
Subarctic | |
Polar Climates | |
Tundra | |
Ice cap | |
Part III | |
Chapter 11 | |
Going by the Numbers | |
Opportunity for livelihood | |
Urban growth | |
Population Growth | |
Populating the Planet | |
Bridging the oceans | |
Voyaging afar | |
Making colonial connections | |
Forcing involuntary migration | |
Choosing to Migrate | |
Coming to America | |
Migrating at home | |
Relocating within America | |
Giving a Good Impression | |
Getting an image adjustment | |
Chapter 13 | |
Being Different 15000 Times Over | |
Counting cultural diversity | |
Isolating people | |
Adapting to new surroundings | |
Spreading the Word on Culture | |
Relocating ones culture | |
Coming down with culture | |
Doing what the big boys do | |
Barrier Effects | |
Getting physical | |
Socializing effects | |
How It Moves and Grows | |
Putting diffusion to work | |
Getting effects into action | |
Getting in a Word about Language | |
Diffusing languages | |
Checking the physical effects | |
Playing the landscape naming game | |
Creating a Single Global Culture | |
Promoting cultural convergence | |
Chapter 14 | |
Drawing and ReDrawing the Boundaries of the World | |
Typecasting Boundary Lines | |
Ethnic boundaries | |
Natural physical boundaries | |
Geometric boundaries | |
Living with the Consequences | |
Positional disputes | |
Functional disputes | |
Resource disputes | |
Landlocked states | |
Questions of size and shape | |
Drawing Electoral District Boundaries | |
Rigging the outcome | |
Meeting the letter and spirit of the law | |
Part IV | |
Chapter 15 | |
Categorizing Economic Activity | |
Primary activities | |
Tertiary activities | |
Quaternary activities | |
Activity distribution around the world | |
Putting Economic Systems into Place | |
Commercial economies | |
Understanding Location Factors | |
Proximity to raw materials | |
Proximity to markets | |
Cost of labor | |
Accessibility | |
Cost of landrent | |
Taxes | |
Climate | |
Looking Toward Location Trends of Tomorrow | |
Chapter 16 | |
Defining Resources and Assessing Their Importance | |
The central role of culture | |
Culture change resource change | |
Resources and power | |
Resources and wealth | |
Which Resources Are Here Today or Gone Tomorrow | |
Nonrenewable resources | |
Renewable resources | |
Perennial resources | |
The Consequences of Resource Use | |
Chapter 17 | |
Studying the Urban Scene | |
Getting a Global Perspective | |
Urban Hearths | |
Finding Sites for Cities | |
Confluence | |
Protected harbor | |
Head of navigation | |
Defensive sites | |
Urban Growth | |
Changing means of transportation | |
Automobile ownership | |
Lowcost fuel | |
Home mortgage deductibility | |
The Central Business District CBD | |
Residential areas | |
Leaving Downtown Living Downtown | |
Moving back downtown | |
Facing up to Environmental Issues | |
Chapter 18 | |
Grasping the Basics Environmentally Speaking | |
Pollution on the Move | |
Spreading the mess | |
Focusing on food chains | |
Multiple Sources Affect an Entire Population | |
Getting warmer | |
Taking on the Challenges of Tomorrow | |
ANWR | |
Garbage and NIMBY | |
Part V | |
Chapter 19 | |
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping ACSM | |
Association of American Geographers AAG | |
National Council for Geographic Education NCGE | |
National Geographic Society NGS | |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA | |
Population Reference Bureau PRB | |
United States Census Bureau | |
United States Geological Survey USGS | |
Your States Geographic Alliance | |
Chapter 20 | |
Air Photo InterpreterRemote Sensing Analyst | |
CartographerGIS Specialist | |
Educator | |
Health Services Planner | |
Location Analyst | |
Transportation Planner | |
Urban Planner | |
Chapter 21 | |
The Bermuda Triangle | |
Cold Canadian Air | |
The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain | |
Coming Out of Nowhere | |
Land of the Midnight Sun | |
Tropical Paradise | |
The Democratic Republic of | |
The Seven Seas | |
The Flat Earth Society | |
The Continent | |
Chapter 22 | |
The Aboutcom Geography Page | |
Mapquestcom | |
PerryCastañeda Library Map Collection | |
The US Department of States Geographic Learning Site GLS | |
The Virtual Geography Department | |
WorldClimateCom | |
World Resources Institute | |

