GEOG 2051 Chapter : Geography
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Descriptive approach (write what you see, map, picture: curiosity, economics, political, military, cultural. Explanation approach (have to understand what s going on) 5 common themes in geography research: location- in relation to each other, place- characteristics that make certain things different from other location, region- characteristics locations share, movement/pathways, human-earth relationships- we influence environment and environment influences us. The scientific method: method of development of new knowledge. Goal of scientific method is to create new knowledge: recognize you have a problem, hypothesis: possible explanation of something that requires verification. In other words, a guess: verify: trying to show that hypothesis is incorrect, accept or reject, open-matter and energy are free to enter and leave. Ex: earth: closed- a system in which energy or matter never leaves. Systems theory: complies too many concepts of nature, very abstract. Helps us figure out what we need to look for to understand the natural environment around us.
