5. Physical Features Includes natural and built environments

6. Cultural Attitudes Reflect many aspects of a society’s relationship to their environment (gender, class, religion). These attitudes change over time and can be contradictory.

7. Individual actions and choices

9. Place+Location = Meaning

10. Place interdependence crosses scales

11. Glocalization

15. Interaction Creates Diffusion

18. Taxonomy: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species Biologists Geologists Three major groups, subsidiary groups, geological time Historians Eras, ages, periods Geographers Geographic realms and/or regions based on sets of spatial criteria Classification Systems

21. Geographical Classification The World Realms Regions

25. Other Examples of Functional Regions

27. Formal culture regions

28. Formal Culture Regions

30. Vernacular regions

31. Another Vernacular region

34. Some less obvious…

36. The most common maps: projections

38. Other kinds of maps: Thematic