Understanding Geography as a Discipline in Arts Stream
Learn about the essence of Geography as a discipline, its historical background, key questions it addresses, and different approaches in its study, such as systematic and regional perspectives.
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SUBJECT GEOGRAPHY STREAM ARTS CLASS -11th CHAPTER-01 Geography as a Discipline MODULE-01/02 Prepared By: Mr S.SADHUKHAN (PGT-SS) AECS-2, JADUGUDA
Geography is concerned with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation of the earth surface Richard Hartshorne
Geography studies the differences of phenomena usually related in different parts of the earth s surface. Hettner
ERATOSTHENESE The term first coined by Greek Scholar The word geography derived from Greek language GEO -- EARTH GRAPHOS -- DESCRIPTION Geography is the description of the earth
GEOGRAPHY AS A DISCIPLINE IS CONCERNED WITH THREE SETS OF QUESTIONS 1. WHAT ? 2. WHERE ? 3. WHY ?
WHAT are the patterns of natural and cultural features found over the surface of the earth ? WHERE are these features distributed over the surface of the earth ? WHY such relationships between features, processes and phenomena take place?
Geography as an integrating discipline - spatial Synthesis The shape of the earth isGEOID
BRANCHES OF GEOGRAPHY SYSTEMATIC APPROACH Alexander von Humboldt (German) systematic geography, concentrates on a specific geofactor at the global level REGIONAL APPROACH Karl Ritter (German) It focuses on the interaction of different cultural and natural geofactors in a specific land or landscape
End of Module - 01 THANK YOU
