GG102 Chapter Why Geography Matters:
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Human geography is about recognizing and understanding the interdependence among places and regions, without losing sight of the uniqueness of each specific place. Places are specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes. Regions are territories that encompass many places, all or most of which share attributes different from the attributes of places elsewhere. Places provide the settings for people"s daily lives and their social relations. Different places can foster rather different values, attitudes, and behaviours, they can also make it difficult for people raised in different settings to understand and appreciate one another. Your identity is the sense that you make of yourself through your subjective feelings based on your everyday experiences and social relations. The study of geography involves the study of earth as created by natural forces and modified by human action. Two main branches of geography are physical and human. Physical geography deals with earth"s natural processes and their outcomes (examples are climate,weather,landforms)
