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Physical geography focuses on understanding the Earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and global patterns. It can be divided into topics like climatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and hydrology. Human geography examines how humans interact with environments and is divided into cultural, economic, health, and other geographic fields. Environmental geography bridges human and physical geography by studying human-environment relationships and concepts like sustainability. The document also lists important geographers such as Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ellen Churchill Semple.

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Chapter 2lesson 5

Physical geography focuses on understanding the Earth's lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and global patterns. It can be divided into topics like climatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and hydrology. Human geography examines how humans interact with environments and is divided into cultural, economic, health, and other geographic fields. Environmental geography bridges human and physical geography by studying human-environment relationships and concepts like sustainability. The document also lists important geographers such as Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, and Ellen Churchill Semple.

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Objectives:
 To differentiate the subdivisions of geography;
 To understand the changing and dynamic relationship of human as a
result globalization and technological change; and

 To enumerate the notable geographers.

Human relationship with the environment has changed as a result of


globalization and technological change a new approach was needed to
understand the changing and dynamic relationship.

Physical Geography

Physical geography (or physiography) focuses on geography as an Earth


science. It aims to understand the physical lithosphere, hydrosphere,
atmosphere, pedosphere, and global flora and fauna patterns (biosphere).
Physical geography can be divided into the following broad categories:

Climatology&paleoclimatolo Coastal Env.


Biogeography
gy geography geog.&management

Hydrology&Hydrograph
Geodesy Geomorphology Glaciology
y

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Landscape
Oceanography Pedology Palaeogeography
ecology

Quaternary
science

Human geography

-focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human


interaction with various environments. It encompasses human, political, cultural,
social, and economic aspects. While the major focus of human geography is not
the physical landscape of the Earth, it is hardly possible to discuss human
geography without referring to the physical landscape on which human activities
are being played out. Human geography can be divided into many broad
categories, such as:

Development Economic
Cultural geography Health geography
geography geography

Historical&Time Political Pop. geog. or Religion


geog. geog.&Geopolitics Demography geography

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Transportation Tourism
Social geography Urban geography
geography geography

Various approaches to the study of human geography have also arisen through
time and include:

 Behavioral geography
 Feminist geography
 Culture theory
 Geosophy

Environmental geography

Environmental geography is the branch of geography that describes the


spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. It requires
an understanding of the traditional aspects of physical and human geography, as
well as the ways in which human societies conceptualize the environment.

Environmental geography has emerged as a bridge between human and


physical geography as a result of the increasing specialization of the two sub-
fields. Furthermore, as human relationship with the environment has changed as
a result of globalization and technological change a new approach was needed
to understand the changing and dynamic relationship. Examples of areas of
research in environmental geography include emergency management,
environmental management, sustainability, and political ecology.

Notable Geographers

 Eratosthenes (276BC - 194BC) - calculated the size of the Earth.


 Ptolemy (c.90–c.168) - compiled Greek and Roman knowledge into the
book Geographia.
 Al Idrisi (Arabic: ‫د اإلدريسي‬GG‫د هللا محم‬GG‫و عب‬GG‫ ;أب‬Latin: Dreses) (1100–1165/66) -
author of Nuzhatul Mushtaq.
 Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) - innovative cartographer produced the
mercator projection

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 Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) - Considered Father of modern
geography, published the Kosmos and founder of the sub-field
biogeography.
 Carl Ritter (1779–1859) - Considered Father of modern geography.
Occupied the first chair of geography at Berlin University.
 Arnold Henry Guyot (1807–1884) - noted the structure of glaciers and
advanced understanding in glacier motion, especially in fast ice flow.
 William Morris Davis (1850–1934) - father of American geography and
developer of the cycle of erosion.
 Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918) - founder of the French school of
geopolitics and wrote the principles of human geography.
 Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947) - Co-founder of the LSE,
Geographical Association
 Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975) - Prominent cultural geographer
 Walter Christaller (1893–1969) - human geographer and inventor of Central
place theory.
 Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-) - Chinese-American scholar credited with starting
Humanistic Geography as a discipline.
 David Harvey (1935-) - Marxist geographer and author of theories on
spatial and urban geography, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
 Edward Soja (born 1941) - Noted for his work on regional development,
planning and governance along with coining the terms Synekism and
Postmetropolis.
 Michael Frank Goodchild (1944- ) - prominent GIS scholar and winner of
the RGS founder's medal in 2003.
 Doreen Massey (1944- ) - Key scholar in the space and places of
globalization and its pluralities, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
 Nigel Thrift (1949- ) - originator of non-representational theory.
 Ellen Churchill Semple (1863–1932) - She was America's first influential
female geographer.

Name: __________________________ Date: ________________


Year and Section: _________________ Teacher: _____________

A.
Think!

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