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Geography Sec 1
Intro to Geography
What is Geography?
What is physical Geography?
Study of Physical environment
Consists of?
All naturally occurring living and nonliving things
Examples?
Living, nonliving, natural processes, four components
Four Components
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What is Human Geography?
Study of human life in the built environment
Created through?
Human-made changes to environment
provides setting for variety of human activities
Aspects like?
Transport systems
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Housing
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Geographers understand the world by?
What are Geographical concepts?
Important idea used to understand the world
Four key concepts
Environment
Physical and built environment
processes occurring naturally/result of
human action
Geographers interested in studying?
interactions between humans + environment
Why?
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Scale
Level of detail at which geographers study
3 types of scale
map scale
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time scale
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geographic scale
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Place
Area of the earth's surface
holding special meaning for people
Space
Physical area on Earth's surface
Location is an idea closely related to space
Expressed using coordinates
based on latitude and longitude
Geographical features arranged in patterns
known as spatial pattern
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What is Geographical inquiry?
Pose geographical questions
Posing questions + carrying out investigations
etc. 5W1H
Used to ask geographical questions
Conduct geographical investigations
Stages:
Ask key questions
Formulate hypotheses
Collect sources (primary and secondary)
Analyse and present data (present using maps, graphs, tables)
Draw conclusions
Reflect and take action (improve investigation)
Water and its spatial distribution