What Is Geography? Flashcards

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What is Geography

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Geography is the study of earth, people and their interactions with the natural environment

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What is physical Geography

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It is the study of natural system and the features of earth

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What does Physical Geography includes

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Crust&landforms,Harvard’s,ocean,earth atmosphere

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What topics does physical geography Includes

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Hydrology-study of water
Meteorology-study of weather
Geomorphology - the study of landforms&crust

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What is human Geography

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It is the study of humans and how they interact with earth’s environment

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What does human geography includes?

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It involves where people live, activities, and how the use earth resources

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What are the topics human geography includes?

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Political Geography- it is the study of administrative divisions of a country
Economic Geography- it is the study of how humans use earth resources
Population Geography- it is the study of how the characteristics of human populations

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What is Quantitive Geography?

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It is the study of maps and measurements to give geographic information

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What topic does Quantitive Geography have?

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Cartography- making of maps

Statistical Geography-the study of graphs,charts,tables and numerical Data

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What Are the 5 themes of Geography? And what does GIS stand for?

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Interaction,location,region,Movement,Physical Features.

Geographical Information System

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