Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spatula, Spatial Analysis, Human Geography
14 Jan 2019
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Three themes central to studying human geography the distribution of humans & their activities on the surface of the earth & the processes that generate these distributions. The human world is the ever-changing product of the activities of human beings to modify the pre-existing physical conditions of the earth. Transform our natural environment to suit our desires. Human geographers focus on the evolution of the human world reference people, their cultures, & physical environment. We are interested in the environment both for what it is and for what t its transformation into cultural landscapes mean about us. Change in the physical site (material space) reflects a change in sense of place (im-material space) Hockey arena shows how canadian" we are. Human geographers often divide large areas into smaller areas that exhibit a degree of. An area of the earth"s surface of varying size & scale whose diverse elements share. The scale ranges from global to local.
