Geography 1100 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie, Fluid Parcel, Basalt

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Concerned to provide an accurate, orderly, and rational description of the variable character of the earth"s surface. Seek to explain how the subsystems of the physical environment are organized on the earth"s surface, and how man distributes himself over the earth in relation to physical features and to other men. Concerned with giving man an orderly description of his world, however, the contemporary stress in on geography as the study of spatial organization expressed as patterns and processes. A science concerned with the rational development, and testing, of theories that explain and predict the spatial distribution and location of various characteristics on the surface of the earth. The study of earth as the home of people. Because of spatial variation: earth"s 4 spheres. Biosphere is the interaction of the first three spheres. Isopleth map: geographers seek answers to three broad questions. > latitude and parallels (east to west) equator.

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