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Ohio University GEOG 1100 Notes for exams and first semester.

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50 questions (there's a curve)
20 t/f
20 multiple choice

 GIS methods
 The name of the person to directly frame geography
 Emmanuel Kant
 Systematic & regional approaches
 This class is systematic
 Realms in physical geography
 Hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, etc.
 Who wrote the essay on the principle of population?
 Malthus
 Resources
 2 major types: renewable & nonrenewable
 Renewable are flow Ex: water
 Nonrenewable are fund Ex: fossil fuels
 Natural hazards
 Hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes, drought, etc.
 Arithmetic vs. physiological density
 Human population to arable land-physiological
 Arithmetic-population to area
 Population trends
 World's population is 8 billion
 Population to live within 93 miles of coastal land--44%
 Only 10% of land is arable
 Rate of natural increase
 Percentage of natural increase, worldwide it's 1.2%
 China has the largest pop., 1.4 billion, India is really close and will probably surpass China
 Earth's circumference
 24,900 miles approximately
 First person to accurately calculate the circumference of the Earth: Eratosthenes
 Map scales
 Question related to large and small scale maps
 1:1,000 compared to 1:10,000 (which is bigger)
 Longitude vs. latitude
 Latitude-0-90, associated with parallels and meridians
 Longitutde-180E-180W
 Prime Meridian
 Earth's tilt: 23 1/2 degrees
 Tropic of cancer vs. tropic of Capricorn (southern)
 Map projections
 Recognize 3 major categories: cylindrical, plane, and conical
 Rays
 Gamma rays, UV, etc.
 What we see with our eyes? .4 to .7
 Satellites
 LANDSAT-launched in 1972 and the last one (LANDSAT 9) was in Sept. 2021

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