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intro to geography
climate, weather, basic concepts
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
02/12/2007

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Areas of focus
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Physical
Human
Impact on modern society
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The three questions that geography asks
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What is it?
Where is it?
Why is it there?
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Physical Geography deals with what 4 processes
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-Causes of physical landscape
-Energy processes (earth's shaped, rotation, orbit, water, etc.)
-Effects of landforms, climates and atmosphere
-Planetary Processes
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Two dominating approaches to geography
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Locational
Spatial
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Definition of science
Definition
a systematic mean of getting knowledge on any subject
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Definition of social science
Definition
the nature of human nature
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definition of natural sciences
Definition
what is the nature of physical nature
-natural activity
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what is the main concept the geographers study? (hint: one word)
Definition
space
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what is a phenomenon
Definition
a fact of event that is observable through senses and scientific study
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