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Concepts

• What is geographic imagination and why is important?
• Explain the four essential rules for an explanation to be considered scientific.

• Why can there be exceptions to the essential rules? Explain.

• Know the funnel of certainity and be able to explain it.

• Give and define the characteristics of a good theory.

• Define catastrophism

• ID James Hutton

• ID Charles Lyell

• Define, explain and give an example of each.
  • Uniformitariansim-

• • Superposition

The order of which layers of sediments are deposited above one another. The law of superposition is that the order of sediments is directly related to how old the sediment is. The bottom layer is the oldest, and the top layer would be the youngest. An example would be if you made a PB&J sandwich the slice of bread you placed on top would also be the most recent, therefore youngest, ingredient in the sandwich.

• • Three Age Theory

• • Plutarch: Great Men and their Character

• • Toynbee: Challenge and Response

• • Malthus Theory of Population

• • Darwin: Survival of the Fittest

• • Marx: Material Dialectic

• • Turner: Geography and the Frontier

• • Radicals: History is the Story of Who Won

• • Boorstin: The Unexpected

• Cultural Relativism

• Why is history considered to be an interpretation of facts and events?

• Post notes from video on Geographic Imagination

• Post notes from Day the Universe Changed.