Geography 1100 Lecture 2: Unit 2.docx
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How geography defines position, scale, direction, interaction among places, and regions. This unit covers the evolution of geographic thought, environmental determinism, possibilism, and the four traditions in geography. You should understand the scientific method and the nature of geographic data, models, and the problems of spatial sampling. Study of geography by combining the study of earth systems and human societies. Geography is more than knowing where events occur, it is knowing why they occur. Study of spatial variation, why do things differ from place to place on the surface of the earth, both physically and culturally: how observable spatial patterns evolved over time. The content of the area, has both physical and cultural areas, and geography is concerned with understanding both. Geography comes from greek scientist eratosthenes over 2200 years ago from the word. Geo" = earth and graphenin" = to write. Strabo observed that humans were the active elements in a human-environmental partnership.