GEOG 2051 Lecture : Unit 1 Notes
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***syllabus review*** ((remember to check important dates in the syllabus and put them in your calendar) Resources helpful to this class: friends, textbook, daily reviews, study guides for exams. Geography: the study of spatial distribution of phenomena. Four connected parts of the earth system: (1). Scientific method: image of the real world, hypothesis, testing, theory. Systems theory: group of broad, abstract concepts of how things work. Starts out with the basic fundamental idea of a system. System - set of objects and their attributes that are linked together by flows of matter and energy. Budget - inputs - outputs = change in storage. If inputs are smaller than outputs, negative budget. If inputs are larger than outputs, positive budget. Systems with positive or negative budgets cannot function. Lag time - time difference between change and response. Ducks having babies, increasing population, increased population has babies, continues growing population until world has too many ducks.
