Geography

Physical Geography
a branch of geography that
deals with the physical
features and changes of the
earth.

-the study of the
climates of the world and their
relationship to man’s activities.
-the study of the
physical environment and its
relationship to the plant and animal
life.
Physical Geography

-the study of the
origin and classification of the
landforms of the earth.
-the
study of the measurement of the
sized and shaped of the earth as a
member of the solar system.

Human Geography- is the branch of
the social sciences that deals with the
study of people and their
communities, cultures, economies
and interaction with the environment
by noticing their relations with and
across space and place.

the study of the
earth in relation to the cultural activities of
man, that is, his mode of living and
achievements as they are influenced by the
physical environment.
the study of the
earth in relation to the productive activities
of man. The earth is the main source of
wealth, such as forests, mines, soils, waters
and fisheries.

the study of the earth
in relation to the social activities of man.
the study of the
earth in relation to the political activities
of man.
Other specialized branches of geography

Objectives of Geography Study
•It interprets the interrelations between the
natural and human resources and how these
can serve as the basis for socio-economic and
political development.
•It stimulates the observation of natural and
cultural patterns of the earth’s surface which
bring about a better appreciation on the
landscape.
•It provides the key to the promotions of
international understanding among the peoples
of the world on the realization that there is a
world-wide inter-dependence among all men.

Objectives of Geography Study
•It promotes the study of environmental education and
conservation of the natural resources to maintain a desirable
quality of the environment.
•It fosters the appreciation of similarities and differences
from one region to another, the haves and the haves-nots,
the developed and the underdeveloped areas of the globe
and to find causes there from.
An important aspect of geography is the study of space
relationship of different regions of the world. This
involves a careful investigation of all factors that make
up the natural and cultural environment of an area as
well as the advantages and disadvantages of its location,
size and shape.

CONCEPT of NATURAL RESOURCES
Weather and climate
Landforms

•Waters
•Soils
•Forests
•Fisheries
•Minerals including coal and oil
Oceans
a very large expanse of sea, in particular, each
of the main areas into which the sea is divided
geographically.

Norton Ginsburg
“Natural Resources and
Economic Development”
-defines natural resources in
their broadest sense to
include all the freely given
material phenomena of
nature within the zone of
man’s activities, plus the
additional non-material
quality of situation or
location.

As in many other sciences, in geography, systematic and direct
observations and descriptions are preliminary and necessary top
the interpretation of the relation between the physical
environment and man’s activities.
Tools of geographer- map, graph or chart.
The features that exist together on the earth’s surface
may be studied in two ways: (1) by and (2) in
. In the topical or systematic way, the various
aspects of the natural and human environments are
analyzed and studied separately.

Geography

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