This document outlines and describes five fields of human geography: physical, cultural, social, political, and economic. The physical field involves maps and spatial data to study phenomena and regions on Earth. The cultural field focuses on how language, religion, and culture change between places. The social field consists of shared beliefs, customs, and ways of living. The political field relates to views about authority and includes factors like tax policy. Finally, the economic field is the study of how people and governments manage resources by producing, exchanging, and consuming goods and services.

1. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FIELDS
-SOCIAL FIELDS-
-POLITICAL
-CULTURAL
-ECONOMICAL
-PHYSICAL
-SOCIAL
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FIELDS

2. FIELD: PHYSICAL
•Maps and geographers
•:
•Location, Space, Place,
Scale, Pattern,
Regionalization, &
globalization
•maps/spatial data
•phenomena in places
•Regions & regionalization
process
•Sources of Geographical ideas
•Census data
Physical features of the earth's surface.
All about the Earth and the things that
happen on Earth.
Taken from
http://www.geography4kids.com/

3. FIELD: CULTURAL
Language, Religion, Ethnicity, Gender, Popular & Folk Culture
CULTURAL……..
It focuses on describing and analyzing the
ways language, religion, economy,
government, and how they change or remain
constant from one place to another and on
explaining how humans interact with them.

4. FIELD: SOCIAL
Social factors include the cultural aspects and include
health consciousness, population growth rate, age
distribution, career attitudes and emphasis on safety.
Consists of the beliefs, customs, laws, art and ways of
living that people share.

5. FIELD: POLITICAL
Political factors include areas such as tax policy, labor
law, environmental law, trade restrictions, tariffs, and
political stability. Political factors may also include goods
and services which the government wants to provide or
be provided. Relating to your views about social
relationships involving authority or power; "political
opinions"
http://dictionary.askponcho.com.au/word/political

6. FIELD: ECONOMICAL
The study of how people and the
government manage their resources by
producing, exchanging, and using goods
and services. Economics is not just
money. It's businesses and how they
work.
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subje
cts/economics.htm

7. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY FIELDS