GEOG 1003 : GEOG1003 Test 1 Study Guide
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1 and 8: the etymology of the word geography", the language it derived from and its meaning. Comes from a greek word geographia, which translates to writing the world. It"s the study of global interconnections involving everything from how people earn a living to how they interact with environment. It investigates the physical features of earth and its atmosphere, the spatial organization and distribution of human activities, and the complex interrelationships between people and the natural and human made environments where they live. To describe and explain global geographic processes why certain things happen on earth. Map/travel/measure the world to provide careful and rich accounts and descriptions of earth"s characteristics: the various types of shared characteristics that enable us to define distinct global regions. Large areas that share similar cultural, environmental, economic, and political characteristics. Snowing/weather conditions: the definitions of systems, interdependence and change provided in the textbook.
