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WGC - CH0 - Intro - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Torrid (tropical)
      - ekumene (mid latitudes)
      - frigid, polar realams
- - - - They established human geography, completed regional studies inside and out of China, studied geomorphological processes, and wrote geographical encyclopedias
- - - - the relationships between people and the lands that support them;
      - the existence of distinctive areas or regions, including analysis and explanation of how they came to be formed
      - the physical characteristics of the earth, perhaps the oldest of all geographic traditions.
      - the location of physical and cultural features and activities (spatial distributions)
    - - physical geography, the study of the environment from the viewpoint of distribution and process, emphasizes the interdependence of people and the physical earth
        
        geomorphologists are concerned with the location of terrain features and with the ways in which those features have acquired their shapes and forms
        
        biogeographers, study the distribution of plants and animals, the ways organisms live together, the processes (natural and people-induced) that affect the biological Earth and the effect on environmental changes on human life
        
        Climatologists study the long-term characteristics of the atmosphere and any climatic differences created by temperature or energy and moisture conditions in various parts of the Earth.
      - Human geography, study of various aspects of our occupancy of the Earth.
        
        Urban geographers, examine the location and spatial structure of cities to explain why urban areas are distributed as they are and to account for patterns of settlement and economic and cultural activity within cities.
        
        Cultural geographers, examine the ways in which groups of people organize themselves, distribituion and diffusion of such cultural institutions as langauge and religion, as social and poltical structures
        
        Economic Geography involves the study of systems of livelihood, especially the distribution of related activities and explanations for such distribution, they are concerned with the analysis of natural and cultural resources with utilization and structures of power and control over and patterns of access to resources at various scales that determine the equity which resources are shared.
        
        Systematic or topical geography, consists of the study of specific objects, typically landforms, economic activities, urban places, or natural hazards.
        
        historical geographers, study past landscapes and the changes that have taken place.
        
        regional geography involves the analysis of environmental and human patterns within a single area.