9 Part 5: The Part of Tens Chapter 19: Ten Organizations for Geography in Action American Association of Geographers (AAG) American Geographical Society (AGS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) National Geographic Society (NGS) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Royal Geographical Society (RGS) United States Census Bureau United States Geological Survey (USGS) Chapter 20: Ten Interesting Career Paths for Geographers Area Specialist Educator Environmental Manager GIS Technician Health Services Planner Location Analyst Market Analyst Remote Sensing Analyst Transportation Planner Urban Planner Chapter 21: Ten Things You Can Forget The Bermuda Triangle Cold Canadian Air “Coming Out of Nowhere” “The Continent” The Democratic Republic of … The Flat Earth Society Land of the Midnight Sun “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain” The Seven Seas Tropical Paradise Chapter 22: Ten Great Places for Online Geography Any County/Local GIS Department Geocaching Geoguessr Geoinquiries Google Earth Google Lit Trips Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection World Bank Open Data World Factbook Your State’s Geographic Alliance
10 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 The 10 Most Populous Countries in 2021
2 Chapter 12TABLE 12-1 Top 10 Sources of U.S. Immigrants Historically and RecentlyTABLE 12-2: The 15 fastest growing cities in the United States, 2000–2020 (100,0...
3 Chapter 13TABLE 13-1 Some Cultural UniversalsTABLE 13-2 How People “Sing” in Four Languages
4 Chapter 17TABLE 17-1 The 10 Largest Metropolitan Areas in 2020
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: A map of the historical geography of the African lion. FIGURE 2-2: Potential sites for a gas station.
2 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: A map of Gridville. FIGURE 3-2: The basics of the global grid. FIGURE 3-3: A representation of a portion of Earth’s grid. FIGURE 3-4: Degrees, minutes, and seconds.
3 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: Map projection. FIGURE 4-2: New York City to Singapore: Map # 1. FIGURE 4-3: New York City to Singapore: Map #2. FIGURE 4-4: Families of map projections. FIGURE 4-5: The Mercator projection. FIGURE 4-6: Goode’s Interrupted Homolosine projection. FIGURE 4-7: Lambert Conformal Conic projection. FIGURE 4-8: The Peters projection.
4 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: Three ways to indicate the scale of a map. FIGURE 5-2: These three maps have different scales, and therefore differ in are...FIGURE 5-3: The terrain of a make-believe place, as depicted three ways. FIGURE 5-4: This map uses proportional circles to indicate the size of cities. FIGURE 5-5: This map uses flow lines of different widths to indicate hypothetic...FIGURE 5-6: This map uses nominal area symbols to identify the distribution of ...FIGURE 5-7: This choropleth map uses shades of gray to show population density ...FIGURE 5-8: Geographic Information