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human geography

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What is geography? the field of human knowledge that studies the earth.
What is physical geography? studies all of the natural occurrences on the planet.
What is climatology? the study of the earth's climate.
What is geomorphology? the study of the distribution of landforms.
what is biogeography? the study of the distribution of plants and animals.
what is human geography? the scientific study of the location of people and activities across the earth's surface and the reasons for their distribution.
what is a homogeneous region? a region that has shared characteristics, such as climate or language.
what is a nodal region? an area that is organized around a focal point.
what is a vernacular region? region that is perceptual in nature.
what is a site? the physical location of a place.
what is a situation? relative, location, is the location of one place as it is related to another place.
what is a scale? the size of a particular place.
what is spatial interaction? the interdependence of people in different areas.
what is cultural ecology? studies how humans interact with and adapt to the ecological system.
Who is Alexander Von Humboldt? German scientist who developed the theory of isothermic lines.
Who is Carl Ritter? He was famous for a nineteen-volume work that explained how earth's physical structure influenced human activities.
what is environmental determinism? the influence of the physical environment on humans determines the cultural characteristics of a specific social group.
what is environmental possibilism? a social group's physical environment sets boundaries and limits to the social group, but that, ultimately, the social culture is not determined by the environment.
Who is Carl Sauer? He developed the theory of Landscape.
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