Geography Review 1

What is the meaning of the prefix "geo"?

• writing

• Earth

• geography

What is geography?

• It is the study of different places on Earth.

• It is the study of people and how they create environments.

• It is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.

Geography can be divided into three areas or strands:

• human, physical and environmental

• environmental, social and economic

• physical, cultural and economic

What is physical geography?

• The study of how humans populate landscapes and environments.

• The study of how humans impact landscapes and environments.

• The study of landscapes and environments.

What is human geography?

• The study of how humans predict natural disasters.

• The study of societies, cultures and economies.

• The study of how humans impact the Earth.

What is environmental geography?

• The study of how humans create artificial geography.

• The study of human interactions in different cultures.

• The study of how humans impact the Earth.

In human geography, geographers study:

• air pollution, global warming and climate change

• earthquakes, volcanoes, rivers, coasts

• • population, migration, urban pattern and societal changes

In physical geography, geographers study among other things:

• How we pollute the air and the oceans, how our actions cause the Earth to be warmer and what we can do to reduce them.

• How our landscape is created and changes over time, how rivers and glaciers change the environment around us

  and why areas experience the weather and climate they do

• How our numbers are growing, why people migrate, where we live and how we earn a living.

In environmental geography, geographers study:

• • pollution, the destruction of habitats, climate change

  
  

• migration, overpopulation, economy and culture

• landscapes, ecosystems, glaciers

The 3 big themes in geography are:

• change, impact and inequality

• landscapes, societies and pollution

• human, physical and environmental