Geography 1100 Chapter : Unit 2 - The Evolution of Geography.docx
12 Nov 2014
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Chapter 1: introduction (textbook pages 1-19: the study of geography, by combining the study of earth systems and human societies, sheds important lights on such events like natural disasters". What is geography: geography is much more than place names and locations. It is the study of spatial variation, of how and why things differ from place to place on the surface of the earth. It is, further, the study of how observable spatial patterns evolved through time: geographers focus on the interaction of people and social groups with their environment. Planet earth and with each other; they seek to understand how and why physical and cultural spatial patterns evolved through time and continue to change: geography is about earth space and the content of that space. He led ambitious scientific expeditions to distant places and synthesized vast amounts of geographic data in his famous writings. Its concerns are with landforms and their distribution, with.
