GEOG 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geomatics, Geomorphology, Dog Meat
21 Mar 2017
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Spatial relationships: how things relate through space over an area. Surface of earth, where humans interact with environment: atmosphere: climate and weather, crust: soil and things in/on it. Started asking questions about cultures, environments science. Regional: break world into smaller units: region: specific portion of earth"s surface delimited per its characteristics. Studying geography: scale varies, zooming in and out. Systematic: break into subfields: natural environment is physical geography, people and culture is human geography. Physical geo: climate, landforms geomorphology, meteorology, soils, hydrology, biogeography, mineral resources. Human geo: population, settlement, economic, historical, cultural, urban, political, agriculture. Example: agriculture: climate determines agriculture determines food culture, meteorology and geomorphology determine climate, soils and hydrology determine biogeography also determines agriculture, agriculture determines population, settlement, economic, and political culture, settlement determines urban. We study regions by studying how their systematic subfields apply to that region. Ideology: behavior, language, religion, habits, economy, technology, political systems, food, etc. Social creation made by people, shared beliefs and practices.
