GEOG 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dynamic Equilibrium, Spatial Analysis, Hydrosphere
23 Feb 2016
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Earth systems science-interacting sets of physical, chemical, and biological processes that merge together to give a view of the earth as a complete entity of these systems. Geographic science can be broken into five themes: location: answers the question where. 3)human-earth relationships: how humans and their exploitation, hazard perception, and environmental pollution affect the processes and systems of the earth. 4)movement: communication, circulation, migration and diffusion across the surface of the earth. 5)place: a defined area that is its own and is nowhere else in the world. Processes are a set of ordered actions that operate to serve a function. We use spatial analysis to analyze these processes. A system is any ordered interrelated set of things (processes can be things) linked by inputs and outputs of energy and/or matter. Open systems are inputs and outputs of energy through a system that is not self-contained.
