GEOG 1001 : Geography Notes Test 1
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** office hours moved to tuesday after class. Can go to office hours and look at her lecture notes: where matters, geo + graphy is about understanding the world. The study of special variation of how and why things differ from place to place across the surface of the earth. The study of how people make the world into their home . We change abstract space into spaces that are unique and show symbolism. Cultural landscapes- the visual material expression of human settlement past and present (what we can see when we travel some place new, their unique everywhere though all so similar in many places). Works to unify but also works to divide and push us apart. Links physical and social sciences (ex: geology, biology and botany) Travel (could live there, or a tourist) Improving/helping (peace core, doctors w/o orders, volunteers: regions, culture. A combination of physical and human features and by the interaction of the two.
