GEOG 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Conformal Map, Landform, Northern Hemisphere
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= description of the earth; the study of the earth as the home of mankind. Ethnogeographies = geographic knowledge used by indigenous people who have not had written languages. Six essential elements of geography: the world in spatial terms. Geography studies the relationships between people, places, and environments by mapping information about them in a spatial context: places and regions. The identities and lives of individuals and people are rooted in particular places and in human constructs called regions: physical systems. Physical processes shape the earth"s surface and interact with plant and animal life to create, sustain, and modify ecosystems: human systems. People are central for geography; human activity, settlements, and structures help shape the earth"s surface, and humans compete for control of the earth"s surface: environment and society. The physical environment is influenced by the ways in which human societies value and use the earth"s physical features and processes: uses of geography.
