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1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Introduction About This Book Foolish Assumptions Icons Used in This Book Beyond the Book Where to Go from Here

5  Part 1: Getting Grounded: The Geographic Basics Chapter 1: Geography: The Why of Where and Why You Should Care Geography: Making Sense of it All Exposing Misconceptions: More Than Maps and Trivia The Geographic Advantage Getting to the Essentials Chapter 2: Thinking Like a Geographer Changing the Way You Think — Geographically Case Study #1: Where Something is Located Case Study #2: Where Something Should be Located Chapter 3: Lining Up Locations Welcome to Gridville Feeling Kind of Square Telling Someone Where to Go The Global Grid: Hip, Hip, Hipparchus! Getting Lined Up Chapter 4: Truthiness in Mapping Seeing the Light: Map Projections Realizing Exactly How Flat Maps Lie Isn’t there a truthful map anywhere? Different Strokes for Different Folks: A World of Projections Mapping a Cartographic Controversy! Chapter 5: Telling a Spatial Story Why We Need Tal(l) Dogs Taking It to Scale Showing the Ups and Downs: Topography Using Symbols to Tell the Story New Ways of Seeing: How Technology has Changed How we Make and Use Maps Geographic Information Systems Making Maps Yourself!

6  Part 2: Let’s Get Physical: Land, Water, and Air Chapter 6: Shape-shifting Earth Starting at the Bottom: Inside Earth Moving Continents: Big Pieces of a Big Puzzle Getting Down to Theory Making Mountains Out of Molehills Experiencing Earthquakes: Shake, Rattle and Roll! Subducting Plates: Volcano Makers Categorizing Tectonic Processes Chapter 7: A Nip and a Tuck: Giving Earth a Facelift Getting Carried Away Changing the Landscape Chapter 8: Making a Splash on Earth Taking the Plunge: Global Water Supply Shaping Our World: Oceans Getting Fresh with Water Chapter 9: Warming Up and Chilling Out: Why Climates Happen Getting a Grip on Climate Playing the Angles Tilt-a-World: The Reasons for the Seasons Hot or Cold? Adjust Your Altitude Gaining Heat, Losing Heat Oh, How the Wind Blows Going with the Flow: Ocean Currents Living Under Pressure Chapter 10: Connecting Climates and Vegetation Giving Class to Climates Mixing Sun and Rain: Humid Tropical Climates Going to Extremes: Dry Climates Enjoying the In-between: Humid Mesothermal Climates Cooling Off: Humid Microthermal Climates Dropping Below Freezing: Polar Climates

7  Part 3: Peopling the Planet Chapter 11: Nobody Here But A Few Billion Friends Going by the Numbers Going Ballistic: Population Growth Checking Behind the Curve: Population Change Considering “Overpopulation” Chapter 12: Shift Happens: Migration Populating the Planet Choosing to Migrate Giving a Good Impression Chapter 13: Culture: The Way We Live Being Different Thousands of Times Over Spreading the Word on Culture Calling a Halt: Barrier Effects Getting Religion: How It Moves and Grows Getting in a Word about Language Creating a Single Global Culture Chapter 14: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors Drawing and Re-Drawing the Boundaries of the World Typecasting Boundary Lines Living with the Consequences Drawing Electoral District Boundaries

8  Part 4: Putting the Planet to Use Chapter 15: Takin’ Care of Business Categorizing Economic Activity Putting Economic Systems into Place Understanding Location Factors Chapter 16: Earth’s Resources: Always Hungry for More Defining Resources and Assessing Their Importance Differing Life Spans: Which Resources Are Here Today or Gone Tomorrow Trading-off Resources: The Consequences of Resource Use Chapter 17: Downtown to the ‘Burbs: Urban Geography Studying the Urban Scene Getting a Global Perspective Getting Started: Urban Hearths Finding Sites for Cities Getting Big: Urban Growth Looking Inside the City Leaving Downtown, Living Downtown Facing up to Environmental Issues Chapter 18: Only One Home: Impacts on the Environment Grasping the Basics — Environmentally Speaking Contributing Factors: Pollution on the Move Going Global: Environmental Issues Affecting Us All Taking on the Challenges of Tomorrow

9  Part 5: The Part of Tens Chapter 19: Ten Organizations for Geography in Action American Association of Geographers (AAG) American Geographical Society (AGS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) National Geographic Society (NGS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Royal Geographical Society (RGS) United States Census Bureau United States Geological Survey (USGS) Chapter 20: Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers Area Specialist Educator Environmental Manager GIS Technician Health Services Planner Location Analyst Market Analyst Remote Sensing Analyst Transportation Planner Urban Planner Chapter 21: Ten Things You Can Forget The Bermuda Triangle Cold Canadian Air “Coming Out of Nowhere” “The Continent” The Democratic Republic of … The Flat Earth Society Land of the Midnight Sun “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain” The Seven Seas Tropical Paradise Chapter 22: Ten Great Places for Online Geography Any County/Local GIS Department Geocaching Geoguessr Geoinquiries Google Earth Google Lit Trips Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection World Bank Open Data World Factbook Your State’s Geographic Alliance

10  Index

11  About the Author

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13  Connect with Dummies

14  End User License Agreement