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Geography
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What is Geography?
Comes from two Greek words: geo
meaning 'Earth' and graphos
meaning 'charting and mapping'
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What is Geography?
Geography studies the interaction
between the natural environment
and the people living in it.
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What is Geography?
It acts as a bridge between
natural science and social science
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• Physical Geography
• Human Geography
2 main branches of
Geography
Studies the natural features
of the earth, like climate,
water, vegetation, and soil.
Physical
Geograpy
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Discipline of Physical
Geography
• Geomorphology
• Glaciology
• Pedology
• Hydrology
• Climatology
• Biogeography
• Oceanography
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Geomorphology
Is the study of Landforms
and the processes that
shape them.
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Glaciology
Is the study of the earth's
ice fields and their impact
on the planets climate.
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Pedology
Is the study of soil and
how it is created,
change, and classified.
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Hydrology
Is the study of
distribution and
movement of water both
on and below earth
surface.
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Climatology
Is the study of earth's
climate system and its
impact on earth's surface.
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Biogeography
Study the impact of the
environment on the
distribution of plants &
animals.
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Ocenography
Focuses on the creatures
and environments of the
world's ocean
Human
Geography
Studies the human population
and the impact of its
activities on the planet.
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The Father of Geography
Eratosthenes
of Cyrene
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He wrote the first
scholarly treatise on
the topic, a three-book
volume Geographika.
Eratosthenes
of Cyrene
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His major contribution
• The first person who use the word "geography"
• He invented a system of longitude and latitude and
made a map of the known world
He wrote 17 volumes of
books with a wealth of
information on
classical geography
Strabo
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His contribution to
geography
• Presented a descriptive history of people
and places from different regions of the
world
• He also wrote the "Geography of Strabo"

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