Ecology and Geography

Geographic Science

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 To study Earth and its relation with its inhabitants,
geography uses the following methodological
principles to explain the phenomena that occur on
the Earth’s surface:
Methodological Principles

• Location

• Causality

• Relation

• Generality

• Evolution

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To locate geographical phenomena you can use

geographic coordinates:
Geographical Coordinates

Starts from the Starts from the Expressed in

equator. Greenwich meters.
meridian.
It is Starting from
represented Represented the sea level.
by parallels. by the
meridians.

Latitude Longitude Altitude

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 Arctic Polar
Circle

Cancer
Earth’s Lines, Spots and Circles

Tropic

Equator

Capricorn
Tropic

Anctartic Polar
Circle
Greenwich Meridian
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Next, you find the map projections, considered a

plane meridian-parallel system over which a map is
traced. (Escobar, 2007):
Earth’s Representations

• Terrestrial globe
• Mercator or
cylindrical
projection.
• Conic
• Azimuthal polar
• Peters
• Mollweide
• Goode

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 There are different map kinds, among which are the
following:

• Historic

• Human

• Physical
Maps

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• Escobar, A. (2007). Geografía,

enfoque por competencias (2ª ed.).
México: Mc Graw Hill.
Bibliographic References

• Salinas, A. (2012). Geografía,

Competencias + Aprendizaje + Vida
(2ª ed.). México: Pearson Educación.

• Sampieri, L. (2006). Geografía. México:

Innovación Educativa: Nueva Imagen.

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Author
Ing. Katy Aidée Rodríguez Botello, MAF
Translator:
Ing. Emmanuel Treviño Garza, MSc
Academic design coordinator
Lic. Juan Amadeo Reyes Ramírez, ME
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