Cultural Landscape Main thing human geographers are concerned

Cultural Landscape • Main thing human geographers are concerned with • Visible imprint of human activity on the landscape

Sequent Occupance • Notion that successive societies leave the cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

Scale Differences Maps of Washington State

Scale Practice • For the following maps complete a quick map analysis protocol and describe how scale and aggregation affect the impressions that the maps give.

Township & Range System in the US Fig. 1 -4: Principal meridians & east-west baselines of the township system. Townships in northwest Mississippi & topographic map of the area.

Principal Meridians & Baselines U. S. Land Ordinance of 1785

Layers of a GIS Fig. 1 -5: A geographic information system (GIS) stores information about a location in several layers. Each layer represents a different category of information.

Uniqueness of Places & Regions • Place: Unique location of a feature – Toponyms – Site – Situation – Mathematical location • Regions: Areas of unique characteristics – Cultural landscape – Types of regions

Situation: Singapore

World Geographic Grid

World Time Zones

Corn Belt

Formal and Functional Regions

Vernacular Regions – also called perceptual Fig. 1 -12: A number of features are often used to define the South as a vernacular region, each of which identifies somewhat different boundaries.

World Climate Regions Fig. 1 -14: The modified Köppen system divides the world into five main climate regions.

How do the density and concentration of baseball teams change from 1950 -2007?