MT. EVEREST 2. SAW- HOUR- ADD- EAST- EARTH SAHARA DESERT 3. PASS- SAFE- PICK- OUST- SUN PACIFIC OCEAN 4. BEAR- MODE- AT- TRY- ANGLE BERMUDA TRIANGLE 5. FOUL- AWE- WON PALAWAN What is Geography? Geography is …
all around us!
Questions on your mind …
• Are you interested in the world
all around you?
• Do you want to be able to make
informed decisions about where to work, where to live and where to go on holiday?
• Are you concerned about the
environment?
• Do you want to develop skills you
will find useful long after you have left school? What is Geography?
“Geography” - 2 Greek words geo (Earth)
graphy (writing/ description)
It is a subject that studies…
• Earth’s surfaces and processes that shape it
• relationships between humans and physical
environments DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY •THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTH AND ITS LIFE, DEALING WITH LAND SEA, AND AIR CONDITIONS; THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS LIFE ESPECIALLY WITH MAN AND HIS INDUSTRIES. FATHER/PIONEER •ERATOSTHENES - A GREEK MATHEMATICIAN, GEOGRAPHER, POET, ASTRONOMER, AND MUSIC THEORIST. HE WAS A MAN OF LEARNING, BECOMING THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN AT THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA. HE INVENTED THE DISCIPLINE OF GEOGRAPHY, INCLUDING THE TERMINOLOGY USED TODAY. •THE GREAT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST SIGNIFICANT LIBRARIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. THE LIBRARY WAS PART OF A LARGER RESEARCH INSTITUTION CALLED THE MOUSEION, WHICH WAS DEDICATED TO THE MUSES, THE NINE GODDESSES OF THE ARTS Purpose of Geography is to develop … • the knowledge and understanding of where we live, other places, how people and the places interrelate Earth’s surfaces and processes that shape it
• the skills needed to carry out
geographical study (eg, enquiry, mapwork and fieldwork) – 3Ws, 1H
• interest in, and to encourage an
appreciation of the world around us
• develop concern for the world around us
and an ability and willingness to take positive action both locally and globally But, knowing one isolated geographical fact does not mean there is geographical understanding!
For example: Knowing Mt Everest is the highest peak (8850m) in the
world is not understanding geography …unless we seek to understand
Why it is How its location
the highest influences the political peak? security, downstream How is it flooding and created? access to water of the surrounding areas?
Therefore, understanding Mt Everest in terms of the interlinked physical
processes and human activities is then truly geographical understanding! TWO SUB-DIVISIONS 1. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY • GEOMORPHOLOGY (EARTH’S FORM AND STRUCTURE) • HYDROLOGY (STUDY OF ALL FORMS OF WATER UNDERGROUND, OVER-GROUND AND IN THE CLOUD) • CLIMATOLOGY (STUDY OF LONG TERM WEATHER CALLED CLIMATE AND ITS EFFECTS ON LIFE) • BIOGEOGRAPHY ( STUDY OF PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE AND PROCESSES) • PEDOLOGY ( THE STUDY OF SOILS) 2. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY • CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND DESCRIBE THE OCCURRENCE OF VARIOUS CULTURAL GROUPS WITH REFERENCE TO SPACE. • ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND THE BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT). • HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY (UNDERSTANDING WORLD HISTORY IN TERMS OF SPACE AND TIME). HUMAN GEOGRAPHY • POPULATION GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING CULTURAL COMPOSITION, GROWTH, MIGRATION PATTERNS AS RELATED TO NATURE OF PLACES). • POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL FEATURES OF REGIONS) • SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY (DEFINING WHAT COULD BE TERMED RURAL AND URBAN AREAS AND WHY?) • HEALTH (MEDICAL) GEOGRAPHY (HEALTH AND DISEASE STUDY ACROSS SPACE AND PLACE). PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY •DESCRIBE AND STUDY THE SURFACE FEATURES OF THE EARTH- OCEANS , CONTINENTS, MOUNTAIN, HILLS, RIVERS, STREAM, LAKES, PONDS, GULFS, BAYS, ESTUARIES, PENINSULAS AND MANY OTHER LAND AND WATER FEATURES PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHER'S •THEY MAKE MAP SHOWING WHERE METAL ORES, COAL, OIL AND NATURAL GAS ARE LOCATED IN THE EARTH. THEY ALSO MAP THE CLIMATES OF THE WORLD. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY •DESCRIBES AND STUDIES WHAT HUMAN BEING DO IN AND ON LAND AND WATER. IT IS ALSO CALLED POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, USES MAPS THAT LOCATE THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTRIES, STATES AND COUNTIES-LINES THAT HAVE BEEN DECIDED UPON BY PEOPLE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY • IT DIVIDE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD INTO GROUPS CALLED CULTURES. THE PEOPLE OF A CULTURE SHARE MANY THINGS, IN TERMS OF CLOTHING, FOOD PRODUCTION, CHILD REARING, PHYSICAL FEATURES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS. ACTIVITY •GROUP ACTIVITY: HUMAN TABLEAU •IN GROUPS, LEARNERS WILL PERFORM HUMAN ACTIVITIES REFERRING TO A CERTAIN PLACE SUCH AS HILLY, MOUNTAINOUS, COASTAL, RIVERS, LAKES TO SHOW THEIR WAY OF LIFE. ANALYSIS
•HOW DO YOU FIND THE ACTIVITY?
ABSTRACTION •FROM ALL OF THE AFOREMENTIONED, WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT GEOGRAPHY? APPLICATION •HOW DOES YOUR ENVIRONMENT AFFECT YOUR WAY OF LIVING? ASSESSMENT
(10-ITEM QUIZ)
•GIVE THE DEFINITION, ETYMOLOGY,
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