高中地理课程的总体目标是要求学生初步掌握地理基本知识和基本原理,获得地理基本技能,发展地理思维能力。思维是在表象和概念的基础上进行分析、综合、判断、推理等认识活动的过程。思维能力的培养是地理教学过程中能力培养的核心任务,思维能力是所有智能的核心。在地理教学中,思维具有特殊重要的意义:思维是形成各种地理知识信息联系的基础; The overall goal of high school geography curriculum is to require students to initially grasp the basic knowledge of geography and basic principles, access to basic geographic skills, the development of geographic thinking ability. Thinking is based on the appearance and concept of analysis, synthesis, judgment, reasoning and other cognitive activities. The cultivation of thinking ability is the core task of ability cultivation in geography teaching. The thinking ability is the core of all intelligence. In geography teaching, thinking has a special significance: thinking is the basis of forming various kinds of knowledge and information of geography;