This document defines and describes the key areas and branches of geography. It discusses both physical geography, which studies the Earth's natural features, and human geography, which examines human activities and cultures. The document outlines the main elements of geography, including physical elements like climate, landforms, waterforms, plants and animals, and natural resources, as well as cultural elements like population, settlements, economics, and transportation. It also describes different types of geography such as topical, regional, economic, political, historical, and zoogeography.

1. What is Geography?!
Joy Policarpio
Angelica Villegas

2. Fields/Areas
of
Geography

3. Physical
and
Human
Geography

4. *Physical Geography*
•Describes
and studies
the surface
features of
the Earth.

5. *Human Geography*
• Describes and studies what
human beings do in and on
land and water.
• Cultures-It divides the people
of the world into groups
called Cultures.

6. Branches of Human Geography
• 1. Economic Geography
• 2. Political Geography
• 3. Geography and Political Science
• 4. Social Geography

7. The Elements of Geography
Physical or Natural Elements
A. Weather and Climate
B. Landforms
1. Continents and Islands
2. Highlands
3. Lowlands
C. Waterforms
1. Oceans and Seas
2. Waters of the land
D. Plants and Animals
E. Natural Resources
Cultural or Human Elements
A. Man
1. Population
2. Cultural Groups
3. Cultural Institutions
B. Works of Man
1. Settlements
2. Economics or Ways of Life
3.Routes of Transportation
4. Communication

8. Types of Geography

9. 1.Topical Geography
•The study of a single
phenomenon on the
earth's surface.

10. 2.Regional Geography
• The investigation and
correlation of all significant
phenomena as they are
found in any particular area

11. 3. Economic Geography
• Emphasizes the
relationships between
man's efforts to earn a
living on the earth's
surface.

12. 4.Political Geography
•The study of internal and
external relationships of political
units according to their structure
and function as occupiers of
space

13. 5.Historical Geography
•The study of change in
areal differentiation
through time.

14. 6.Zoogeography
• Concerned with the
distribution of animals and
their adaptations to, or their
restriction by, environment.

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