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The document provides an overview of geography, detailing its five themes: location, place, movement, region, and human-environment interaction. It distinguishes between physical geography, human geography, and environmental geography, highlighting various subfields such as geomorphology, cultural geography, and climate change studies. Additionally, it discusses geographical scales and types of maps, including reference, cadastral, thematic, and navigation maps, along with notable map projections like Mercator, Robinson, and Winkel Tripel.

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The document provides an overview of geography, detailing its five themes: location, place, movement, region, and human-environment interaction. It distinguishes between physical geography, human geography, and environmental geography, highlighting various subfields such as geomorphology, cultural geography, and climate change studies. Additionally, it discusses geographical scales and types of maps, including reference, cadastral, thematic, and navigation maps, along with notable map projections like Mercator, Robinson, and Winkel Tripel.

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SOC STUD REVIEWER

Geography -
 study of our world in all its complexity from the physical features of earths surface to the human
societies that inhabit it.
 Scientific study of the earth landscapes, people and environments.

Five Themes of Geography


 Location
 Place
 Movement
 Region
 Human-environment interaction

Physical geography

 Geomorphology - study of land forms and processes that shape them.


 Hydrology - examination of water bodies and water cycle.
 Climatology - analysis of climate patterns and atmospheric processes
 Biogeography - distribution of plants and animals across the globe

Human Geography
 Cultural Geography - examines how space, and landscape are shaped by human culture
including language, religion, ethnicity, and social practices.
 Economic Geography - studies the spatial distribution of economics activities, including
agriculture, industry, service, transportation, and trade.
 Political geography - focuses on how space is divided for administrative and representational
purposes including borders, territories, geopolitics, and electoral systems.

Environmental Geography
 Natural resource management - studying sustainable approaches to managing earths resources,
including water, forests, minerals and energy resources.
 Climate change studies - analyzing the causes and impacts of global climate change on physical
systems and human societies.
 Conservation Geography - developing strategies for protecting biodiversity and preserving
ecosystems threatened by human activities.
 Hazard Assessment - identifying, monitoring and mitigating natural hazards like floods, droughts,
earthquakes and hurricanes.

 Urban Geography - It examines both the physical and social aspects of cities, including their
location, growth, structure, and the interplay of social, economic, and political factors within them
 Medical Geography - examine the spatial aspect of health and disease.
 Tourism Geography - analyzes the spatial patterns of tourism, Impact on destinations and
cultural and economic implication of global travels.
 Historical Geography - investigates how geographical landscapes have changed overtime.
Geographical Scale
 Global scale - worldwide patterns and processes
 Regional scale - continental or multi-country areas
 National scale - country-level Geography
 Local scale - cities, towns and neighborhoods.

Types of maps
 Reference map - location of places and geographical features like political boundaries, cities,
roads and topography.
 Cadastral maps - show property boundaries and land ownership information for legal and
administrative purposes.
 Thematic maps - display distributions of specific phenomena like population density, climate
data,or election result.
 Navigation maps - designed to help people travel from one location to another, including road
maps and nautical charts.

 Mercator - is a conformal cylindrical map projection that was originally created to display
accurate compass bearings for sea travel

 Robinson - a compromise map projection showing the poles as lines rather than points and more
accurately portraying high latitude lands and water to land ratio.

 Winkel Tripel - a compromise map projection, meaning it attempts to minimize distortions in


area, shape, and distance when representing the Earth on a flat surface

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