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Geographer
* All geographers are fundamentally interested in how places are interconnected, yet remain unique
  - use maps to convey ideas
* Describes what geographers do and the skills they bring to the marketplace.
* Many geographers teach in high schools or colleges
  - work in mapping and other graphic design companies
* Most geographers believe that geography is inherently interesting to nearly everyone.
* Some geographers construct and draw maps
  - list only six continents, combining Europe and Asia into Eurasia
  - spend a lot of time in the field gathering data
* also analyze regions that range in size from worldwide to local
  - ask why things are located in particular places
  - look at demographic transition models
  - see the spatial aspects of demography
  - study the linkages between human activity and natural systems
  - tend to focus on a particular topic or area of expertise
  - work at different scales
* analyze processes, systems, and behaviors that have spatial expression.
* apply a spatial perspective to eco-nomic and social data using choropleth maps.
* are also concerned to see how places are bound together
  - always interested in looking at spatial patterns
  - artwork
* are concerned with people's relationship to place and space
  - understanding and explaining variations from place to place
* are interested in the concept of mental maps and how they are developed
  - sense of place among the peoples of the world
  - no different from many disciplines
  - particularly concerned with the linkages that bind places together
  - skilled in studying the interaction of natural, physical and social processes
* call place names toponyms
  - the ability to reflect sunlight albedo
* classify glacial sediment according to it's mode of deposition.
* collect, study, analyze, and organize information about the Earth's surface.
* conduct field work to learn about the world.
* constantly struggle to find the best ways to display data.
* continue to explore the relation between scale of representation and the issues studied.
* define a region as an area that is similar in some way
  - social space as a synthesis of perceived and actual dimensions of space
  - the Great Basin several ways
* describe places by their physical and human characteristics
  - the changing spatial patters of places in words, maps and geo-graphics
* divide the Pacific at the equator into the North Pacific and the South Pacific
  - earth into hemispheres
* do change paradigms, or themes in teaching and research, with some frequency.
* examine where people live, why they settled there, and how they use natural resources.
* focus on anything and everything but relate their investigations to place and space.
* generally conceptualize two types of space
  - describe places by their physical or human characteristics
  - take a climatological approach to the study of the atmosphere
* go on to careers in a wide variety of fields.
* have a long tradition of studying land use
  - much to contribute to research on casinos
  - their own language to describe spatial relationships
* hold a unique perspective on the landscape.
* identify and analyze the global patterns that shape our lives.
* insist that profoundly different processes are at work at different scales.
* is an expert
* look at how people, places, and Earth are connected.
* often divide space into regions
  - specialize in one of the main branches of the science
  - use statistics to analyze their research data
* organize space in much the same way that historians organize time.
* perform a wide variety of jobs in many geographic subfields.
* recognize that people create regions to interpret earth's complexity.
* rely on major governmental efforts to gather relevant data
  - maps for conducting and presenting research
* seek spatial patterns and therefore are interested in generalization.
* sometimes travel to remote areas of the world.
* specialize, as a rule.
* study how climate, land, water and vegetation influence where people live on the Earth
  - human settlements, such as farms and cities
  - human-environment interactions and their spatially varying expression
  - natural hazards, biogeography, climate change, and earthquakes
  - space the way historians study time
* study the Earth and everything on and above it
  - earth and the relationships between earth and people
  - physical make-up of the land and how it affects human life
  - way people and resources relate to one another
  - where things are and how they got there
* synthesize data to observe relationships.
* teach in the earth science area or in the social science area.
* try to understand the patterns of the distribution of things on the earth's surface.
* use a compass rose or the north arrow when drawing their own maps
  - series of ideas and concepts to guide their work
  - wide variety of terms to identify different bodies of water
  - computers and image processing to draw information from imagery
  - economics , history , biology , geology, and mathematics in their studies
  - latitude and longitude to pinpoint a place's absolute, or exact, location
  - maps and graphs to gather, interpret, and analyze geographic information
* use maps as a basic tool
  - tools to discern patterns and to understand why things are where they are
  - regions to give order to the earth's surface
  - specific terms to describe bodies and pieces of land
  - techniques such as observation, surveying, analysis and mapping
* view location in several ways.
* work in business, industry, government, and teaching
  - planning and teaching
  - the private sector as well