1. Essential
1.1. longitude
1.2. latitude
1.3. meridian
1.3.1. prime meridian
1.4. International date line(IDL)
1.5. Greenwich mean line
1.6. Geographic Information System
1.6.1. remote sensing
1.6.1.1. Mash ups
1.7. Global Positioning System(GPS)
2. Key Issue 1
2.1. Cartography
2.1.1. HIstory
2.1.1.1. Martin Waldseemuller
2.1.1.2. Muhammand Al-Idrisi
2.1.1.3. Pei Xiu
2.1.1.3.1. "Father of Chinese cartography
2.1.1.4. Aristotle
2.1.1.5. Eratosthenes
2.1.1.5.1. First person who use the word geography
2.1.1.6. Claudius Ptolemy
2.1.1.6.1. design longitude and latitude lines
2.1.1.7. Abraham Ortelius
2.1.1.7.1. First person who made the theatre of the world
2.1.1.8. George Perkins Marsh
2.1.1.8.1. considered the first modern environmentalist
2.1.1.9. Carl Sauer
2.1.1.9.1. cultural landscapes
2.1.2. Scale
2.1.2.1. large-scale map
2.1.2.1.1. large area
2.1.2.1.2. less details
2.1.2.2. small-scale map
2.1.2.2.1. small area
2.1.2.2.2. more details
2.1.2.3. how to present
2.1.2.3.1. a ratio of function
2.1.2.3.2. a written scale
2.1.2.3.3. a graphic scale
2.1.3. Projection(pjn)
2.1.3.1. Mercator(pjn)
2.1.3.2. Robinson(pjn)
2.1.3.3. Goode Homolosine(pjn)
2.1.3.4. Peters(pjn)
2.1.3.5. Mollweide(pjn)
2.1.3.6. Azimuthal(planar)(pjn)
2.1.3.7. distortion
2.1.3.7.1. direction
2.1.3.7.2. relative size
2.1.3.7.3. distance
2.1.3.7.4. shape
3. Key Issue 3
3.1. Scale
3.2. Globalization
3.3. housing bubble
3.4. transnational corporation
3.5. space
3.5.1. Density
3.5.2. concentrantion
3.6. pattern
3.7. diffusion(difusn)
3.7.1. hearth
3.7.2. Relocation Diffusion
3.7.3. Expansion Diffusion
3.7.3.1. Hierachical (difusn)
3.7.3.2. Contagious (difusn)
3.7.3.3. Stimulus (difusn)
3.8. distance-decay
3.9. Friction of Distance
3.10. space-time compression
3.11. Thematic map
3.11.1. Choropleth map
3.11.1.1. differences in shading, coloring, or the placing of symbols
3.11.2. Dot map
3.11.2.1. Uses dots in a specific area. Each dot is a specific quantity.
3.11.3. Isoline map(a topographic map)
3.11.3.1. Uses continues lines joining points of the same value/elevation
3.11.4. Graduated Symbol map
3.11.4.1. Use symbols of different sizes to represent the numerical values of an attribute.
3.11.5. Political map
3.11.5.1. Indicate state and national boundaries and capital and major cities
3.11.6. Cognitive(Mental) map
3.11.6.1. Inform people's spatial behavior
4. Key Issue 4
4.1. resources(rsc)
4.1.1. renewable (rsc)
4.1.2. nonrenewable (rsc)
4.2. sustainability
4.2.1. pillars of sustainability
4.2.1.1. the environment pillar
4.2.1.2. the economy pillar
4.2.1.3. the society pillar
4.3. Earth's physical systems
4.3.1. biotic (sys)
4.3.2. abiotic (sys)
4.3.2.1. atmosphere
4.3.2.1.1. climate
4.3.2.2. hydrosphere
4.3.2.3. lithosphere
4.3.2.4. biosphere
4.3.2.4.1. ecosystem
4.3.2.4.2. erosion
4.3.2.4.3. depletion of nutrients
5. Key Issue 2
5.1. place
5.1.1. Is a specific point on Earth distinguished by a particular characteristic
5.2. location
5.2.1. the position that something occupies on Earth's surface.
5.3. toponym
5.3.1. Is the name given to place on Earth
5.4. site
5.4.1. Is the physical character of a place.
5.5. situation
5.5.1. Is the location of a place relative to other places.
5.6. cultural landscape
5.6.1. A combination of cultural features such as language and religion, economic features such as climate and vegetation.
5.7. cultural landscape approach
5.7.1. region studies
5.8. mental map
5.8.1. Is an internal representation of a portion of Earth's surface
5.9. Regions
5.9.1. formal region
5.9.1.1. uniform region
5.9.2. functional region
5.9.2.1. nodal region
5.9.3. vernacular region
5.9.3.1. perceptual region
5.10. culture
5.10.1. to care about
5.10.1.1. cult
5.10.2. to care of
5.10.2.1. cultivate