Geography

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Introduction to geography

• Geography is the study of our earth; landscapes,

people, places, environment, our home or
anything which can be mapped.
 It’s the oldest academic
disciplines
History of
geography. Its derived from greek words

Geo(earth) and graphy

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 What we study in geography?

Relationship
between human
Earth surfaces
and physical
environments.
Objectives of geography
• It’s a combination of art and science

• It teach us the understanding of places and environment.

• Because of it economic value geography has been studies all over the world
 To tell students with the living condition of people living in different
parts of the world

They can know about natural resources

Teaching That how our environment and climatic condition effect our life

geography Physical and social environment knowledge

Skills of reading map and globe, they can draw and measure easily

They can use geographical instruments.

 A geographer is someone who studies the
earth and its land.

He study locations of the world

Role of
geographer He study how
natural environment influences people

He study how the world is changing

Five themes
• It was created in 1984.
The geographer's tools
• Geographic information (GIS)

• Remote sensing

• Global positioning system (GPS)

• Google earth

For finding the relationship and trends in

geographic data they use GIS
Famous geographers

• Eratosthenes
 A scientist, mathematician, poet and
astronomer.

 Known as father of geography.

 He was the first to calculate the size of earth.

 He gave the concept of longitude and latitude

• Alexander von Humbolt
 An explorer, naturalist and geographer

 Father of modern geography

 Came up with map which shows isotherms.

 He develop the idea biology, geology all play a part in determining

which plants are capable to thrive in which area.
•Al-idrisi
 Abu abd Allah Muhammad Ibn Muhammad
Al-idrisi

 He was an Arab Muslim geographer

 Father of cartography

 He created the map of Eurasia and north

Africa found in tabula rogeriana.
Carl ritter

• He was a german geographer

• He and alexander was founder of modern

geography

• He wrote 19-volume geography in relation with

nature and mankind.
 • He was a greek geographer

• He work 17-volume work geograhica which

literally means geography

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•Any question?