Spatial Analysis of U. S. Agricultural Distributions
This module is part of the Virtual Geography
Department
and has been prepared for the Introductory Human Geography and the
Urban
& Economic Geography Working Groups. These materials may be used
for
study, research, and education, but please credit the author and
source:
Charles
T. Ziehr,
Department of Geography & Sociology, Northeastern State University,
Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
All commercial rights reserved. Copyright 1997 by Charles T. Ziehr.
This module has been classroom tested. To make suggestions and
corrections
please contact Chuck Ziehr at ziehr@cherokee.nsuok.edu
Facts of Publication
Abstract: Agricultural location factors (physical and human
systems)
are briefly overviewed. Selected agricultural location factors are
mapped
in a U.S. context. Using maps of various agricultural distributions
(from
the 1992 Agricultural Atlas of the United States), students are
directed through a spatial analysis in which agricultural distributions
are related to location factors. Students are then given an additional
set of distributions for self-directed analysis. Sample study questions
are supplied during this portion of the module.
Table of Contents
Module
Overview
Introduction
Agricultural
Location Factors
Guided
Spatial Analysis
Student-Conducted
Spatial Analysis
Supporting
Materials
Evaluation
and Comments
About
the Virtual Geography Department
Created 6/18/97 by Charles T. Ziehr.
Last
updated May 22, 2008.
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http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~ziehr/virtual/human_wg/agric/agmod_hp.html