What is Geography?

What is Geography?

► The study of the physical, biological, and cultural features of the Earth’s surface

Why Do YOU Need to Know Geography?

►So you do not sound like this!

►Jaywalking

What do we study in this class?

Location-- How the geographical position of people and things on Earth’s surface affects what happens and why

Place--All places on the surface of the Earth have unique human and physical characteristics- Physical Human

Movement- People, goods, ideas

Region

The South

Corn Belt

Region - an area having characteristics in common, but not always fixed boundaries

Human – Environment Interaction

How humans affect the environment?

- Deforestation, pollution

How the environment affects humans?

- Earthquakes, Floods

Two Branches of Geography

Studies the world’s

people and their cultures

Land features, climate, biomes, animals

Interaction of people and their environment

Human Geography

Physical Geography

Geography

Why is geography important as a field of study?

►Geographic information provides context for understanding spatial relationships and human-environment interaction.

Geography of a pencil

►How does the production of a pencil illustrate global interconnections?

Interdependence

► Geography also focuses on the interconnections across space.

► Nothing occurs in isolation Bangladesh and the

frogs

How does eating frog legs cause people in Bangladesh

to get sick?►Sell frogs to U.S.►What do frogs eat?►Less frogs = more bugs in

Bangladesh►What is the staple food in

Bangladesh?►What are the bugs eating?►How do we stop bugs from eating our

produce?►What happens if you ingest

pesticides?

Think about it: nothing occurs in isolation

Why geography is important

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Complete the following on a sheet of notebook paper for your section