GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comfort Zone, Edward Ullman, Landlocked Country
6 Nov 2016
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Geography is the academic discipline that studies the pattern of phenomena on the earth"s surface, the processes that create those patterns, and the interaction between humans and the environment. The term phenomenon includes all sorts of attribute that can be considered geographically. These can be physically present (such as a body of water), an attribute of human society (such as regions), or even an attitude that exists in mind. Political science is considered a cognate discipline to geography because the disciplines share the study of a particular set of phenomena. Pattern is a spatial arrangement of a phenomenon. Process is the action that brings about a particular pattern, it represents the evolution and development of something over time. When geographers think about process, they are interested in a few basic things: When a process began and when it ended. The logical ordering if a sequence of processes.
