AP Human Geography / Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
1.6 Scales of Analysis
Notes
Patterns can look different at global, regional, national and local scales. Choosing a scale changes what you see.
Practice
A country looks wealthy overall but has poor regions. This shows:
Zoom level matters.
Studying one neighborhood is a:
Smallest scale here.
National averages can hide:
Aggregation.
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