BIOL 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Ecology, Distance Decay, Environmental Determinism
28 Mar 2015
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Geography combines natural and social sciences: human geography : study cultural features, such as economic activities and cities, physical geography: concentrate on the distribution of natural features, such as landforms and vegetation. To explain why every place is unique : place: a specific point on earth distinguished by a particular characteristic, region: area of earth distinguished by distinctive combination of cultural and physical features. Accurate mapmaking revived in the middle ages, and developed further during the age of exploration. Geography in the middle ages: during first millennium, maps were less mathematical and more fanciful, showing earth as a flat disk surrounded by fierce animals and monsters, major contributors to scientific mapmaking : Muhammad al-idrisi and abu abdullah muhammad ibn-battuta. Geography in the age of the exploration: major contributors. Martin waldseemuller : first map to use the label america . Abraham ortelius: created the first modern atlas. A map is a scale model of all or a portion of earth.
