Geography For Dummies

الغلاف الأمامي
John Wiley & Sons, ١٢‏/٠٥‏/٢٠١١ - 386 من الصفحات
Geography 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:

  • How you can have a rainforest on one side of a mountain range and a desert on the other
  • How ocean currents help to determine the geography of climates
  • How to choose a good location for a shopping mall
  • How you can properly put the plant to good use in everything you do
  • How climate affects humans and how humans have affected the climate
  • How human population has spread and the impact it has had on our world
If you’re mixed up by map symbols or mystified by Mercator projections Geography For Dummies can help you find your bearings. Filled with key insights, easy-to-read maps, and cool facts, this book will expand your understanding of geography and today’s world.
 

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Population Change
Natural increase
The demographic transition model
Making connections
Considering Overpopulation
NeoMalthusians
Cornucopians
Chapter 12

Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I
Chapter 1
Making Sense of It All
To modern discipline
More Than Maps and Trivia
Taking a Look at the New Geography
Why is Abuja the capital of Nigeria?
Getting to the Essentials
The world in spatial terms
Places and regions
Physical systems
Human systems
Environment and society
Uses of geography
Chapter 2
Changing the Way You Think Geographically
Where something is located
Where something should be located
Chapter 3
Feeling Kind of Square
Telling Someone Where to Go
Relative location
The best location to use
Avoiding gridlock
The naming game
Getting Lined Up
Latitude
Longitude
Graticule
Minutes and seconds that dont tick away
Chapter 4
Map Projections
Realizing Exactly How Flat Maps Lie
Singapore please And step on it
Wading through lies in search of the truth
Isnt there a truthful map anywhere?
The globe
Telling the truth but telling it slanted
A World of Projections
All in the map family
Five noteworthy liars
Mapping a Cartographic Controversy
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
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Charles A. Heatwole, PhD, is Chairperson of the Department of Geography at Hunter College of CUNY and has taught Geography for 25 years.

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