GEO 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Public Space, Global Financial System, Richter Magnitude Scale
5 Dec 2013
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An individual needs to be numerate and articulate (qualitative) and very descriptive in your analysis. For instance, if i have to travel from here to where, how long and what the distance in between, Asthenosphere weak layer: area studies- regional geography. The study of a region"s characteristic and attributes. How humans change and are changed by their environment. Ellen churchill sample- moon is the product of the earth. Environmental determinism- environment controls our condition, the type of occupation we engaged in. Possibilism devoted by vidal de la blache - the ability to transform the environment, environemt influences our action and thinking: spatial-location geography. The analysis of general patterns in location, space, place, distance, direction and orientation. Abstract prescribe what things should be: earth studies- physical geography. The study of the lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. Cognition is the mental mechanism through which we process information and includes perception, memory, recall, language, decision making, action etc.
