GEOG 2050 Chapter : Geography 2050 Notes Chapters 1-3
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What is geography: a science that deals with the description, distribution and interaction of the diverse physical, biological and cultural features of. 4 spheres of physical geography: atmosphere: climatology (focuses on seasons) and meteorology (focuses on weather, day to day stuff, hydrosphere: hydrology, biosphere: biogeography, lithosphere: geology and geomorphology (changing planet) Spatial analysis: geographers analyze the differences and similarities among the 5 spatial themes. They have to study all the different parts. It is not a perfect sphere and experiences a bulge at the equator due to speed increase. Longitude: runs n/s (up and down, divides e/w hemisphere with the prime meridian (0 degrees, each line is called a meridian, a great circle divides the planet into two equal parts. Only one line of parallels is a great circle is the equator and all lines of meridians are all great circles. Writing location: lat & direction long&direction, degrees minutes seconds (example 40 degrees 30" 20 , decimal degrees.
