What is Geography?

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What is Geography?

• Geography? the study of the
• Geographers study
• How the
• How our activities
• How the world

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What is Geography (continued)?

• Human geography? the study of the
• Human Geography studies
• Where people
• What people
• Peoples

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What is Geography (continued)?

• Physical Geography? the study of
• Physical Geography studies
• Landforms
• Atmosphere
• Plants

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How do we Study Geography?

• Region? an area with one or more
• Examples
• Cities, states, countries, continents
• Regions are defined by both physical and human
  features
• Physical climate,
• Human languages,

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Types of Regions

• Formal region? has one or more common
• Formal regions can be based on population,
• Functional region? different places that
• Examples city transit system
• Many are organized around a central point (ex
  shopping mall)

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Last Region

• The third region involves human perception? our
  awareness
• Perpetual regions? regions that
• Example back home, the South labeled as Dixie

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Five themes of geography

• Location? exact or relative
• Place? physical and human
• Human-Environmental Interaction? the way people
  and
• Movement? how people and things change
• Region? organizes Earth into geographic areas with

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Six Essential Elements

• The world in spatial terms
• Places and regions
• Physical systems