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Jerry T. Mitchell
Geography For Dummies
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Geography For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to
www.dummies.com
and search for “Geography For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
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Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care
Geography: Making Sense of it All
From ancient roots …
Disputed paternity
Links to exploration
… To modern discipline
MEASURING THE EARTH
Exposing Misconceptions: More Than Maps and Trivia
The Geographic Advantage
What is the capital city of Indonesia?
Why is Jakarta the capital of Indonesia?
Getting to the Essentials
Where things are in the world: The world in spatial terms
What locations are like: Places and regions
Place: What a location looks like
Region: A bunch of locations with something in common
Why things are the way they are: Physical systems
Giving that human touch: Human systems
Interacting with the world around us: Environment and society
Putting geography to use: Uses of geography
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Thinking Like a Geographer
Changing the Way You Think — Geographically
Case Study #1: Where Something is Located
A fraction of its former self
Where lions hang out
What gives with grasslands?
Extinction made easy
ANIMAL GEOGRAPHY, HOLLYWOOD STYLE
Fewer lions? So what?
Summing up
Case Study #2: Where Something Should be Located
Summing up
Looking ahead
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Lining Up Locations
Welcome to Gridville
Feeling Kind of Square
Telling Someone Where to Go
Relative location
Absolute location
The best location to use
The Global Grid: Hip, Hip, Hipparchus!
Avoiding gridlock
The naming game
The equator
The prime meridian
Getting Lined Up
Latitude
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS MAP?
Longitude
Graticule
Minutes and seconds that don’t tick away
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Truthiness in Mapping
EARTH’S SHAPE: SPHERE-LIKE, NOT SPHERICAL
Seeing the Light: Map Projections
Realizing Exactly How Flat Maps Lie
Singapore, please. And step on it!
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY: PUTTING YOUR BEST PROJECTION FORWARD
Wading through lies in search of the truth
Distance
Direction
Shape
Area
Isn’t there a truthful map anywhere?
The one and only honest map: The globe!
Honesty is the best policy, except …
Limited field of view
High cost
Lack of detail
Inefficient data storage
Telling the truth, but telling it skewed
Different Strokes for Different Folks: A World of Projections
All in the (map) family
Five noteworthy liars
The Mercator projection
WHY IS AN ATLAS CALLED AN ATLAS?
The Goode’s Interrupted Homolosine projection
The Robinson projection
The Lambert Conformal Conic projection
The Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection
Mapping a Cartographic Controversy!
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Telling a Spatial Story
Why We Need Tal(l) Dogs
Taking It to Scale
Going the distance
Scale bar
Verbal scale
Representative fraction (RF)
Comparing Earth at different scales
WHENCE COMES THE MILE?
Showing the Ups and Downs: Topography
Spot heights
Contour lines
Shading or Color
DISTORTION FOR A PURPOSE
Using Symbols to Tell the Story
Point symbols
Line symbols
Area symbols
New Ways of Seeing: How Technology has Changed How we Make and Use Maps
Geographic Information Systems
Global Positioning Systems
Remote sensing
Aerial photography
Non-photographic imagery
Making Maps Yourself!
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