GEOG 2051 Chapter : Geography 2051
Document Summary
Geography: the study of the spatial distribution of phenomena (on earth"s surface: study of where things are. Writing about the earth": what is where, description/observation. New geography: why are things where they are, explanation/understanding. Human geography: social geography, cultural geography, economic geography, behavioral geography, political geography, urban geography. The scientific method: a method is a set of procedures for doing something, an approach to create new knowledge, steps, 1. Image of the real world: your knowledge of the things around you, 2. Theory: the knowledge that we generally accept to be correct, 3. Gap in knowledge: something we don"t know about, 4. Hypothesis: a provisional explanation of some phenomena that requires verification. an educated guess. should have some probability of being successful, 5. System: a set of objects and their attributes that are linked together by flows of matter and energy, 2. Open system: matter and energy are free to enter and leave, example: earth.
