GEOG 1001 Quiz: Geography Test 1 Notes Completed
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Understanding the world or describing the earth. How and why things are different in different places. Geographers focus on space and place because where something happens is important landscapes. Notes 1: where matters, geo+graphy (earth + writing, geography, how people make the world into their home . How people modify and interact with our environment in order to create cultural: cultural landscapes. The visible, material expression of human occupation with the environment in. These are unique everywhere in the world, but there are similarities. These are what we can see about culture and human interaction in the the past and present environment. Works to unify and bring us together but also works to divide and push us apart: geography links physical and social sciences, spatial perspective. Geographers are guided by spatial perspective, and their interest in understanding the world in spatial terms.
