GUS 0821 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Climate Change, Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas
12 Oct 2018
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GUS 0821
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
• Geography as a Discipline
o desries the earth’s surfae
o is a science that deals with the earth and its life; esp. the description of land, sea,
air, and the distribution of plant and animal life including humans and their
industries
• Human geography
o the systematic study of human society from a spatial perspective; focuses on
those patterns, distributions and relationships which emerge out of human
interaction with the physical environment.
• Toward a new geographical orientation
o WHAT REALLY IS GEOGRAPHY?
o IT IS A WAY OF SEEING AND KNOWING THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE!
o Geography is the Mother of All Social Sciences.
o Geography is Concerned with Physical & Cultural Landscapes.
o Geographers Construct Terrestrial, Mental & Digital Maps
o Geographical Inquiry Is Fundamental to Human:
o ORIENTATION
o CURIOSITY
o DISCOVERY
o EXPLORATION
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o We all want to know who we are. But knowing who we are
o depends on knowing where we are.
o --Yi Fu-Tuan
• Sub-disciplines of geography
o Physical Geography
▪ Geomorphology
▪ Climatology
▪ Biogeography
▪ Pedology
▪ Natural Resources
▪ Oceanography
o Human Geography
▪ Population
▪ Economic
▪ Political
▪ Urban
▪ Cultural
▪ Social
▪ Historical
• Two geographical lenses
o Spatial lens: How ad why people ad pheoea are distriuted aross earth’s
surface; evolution of physical and cultural landscapes
▪ Maps - primary tool of a geographer
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• Legends
• Colors, Letters & Numbers
• Scale ( ex--:3, ih o the ap is 3 )
• Borders, Symbols & Grids
▪ Location - primary concern of a geographer
• absolute location
• relative location
▪ Site - topography, hydrology soil, buildings, land use, roads
▪ Situation - a place in relation to other places or phenomena
o Ecological lens: the relationship of human beings to other things & other living
organisms
▪ the interrelatedness of all living things
▪ human-natural environment interaction within an ecosystem
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Document Summary
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