Introduction to Human Geography

Today in class we learned the different studies of geography. Geography is a field of science that studies land, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and plants. Also, human geography is the branch of geography that studies people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment. Lastly, physical geography is the field of science that studies the processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. The difference between human and physical geography is that human geography is the study of people and what they have created where as physical geography is the study of nature.

We also talked about what a historian does compared to what a geographer does. A geographer focuses on location of places and why human activities take place where they do. Where as a historian focuses on dates of events and why human events follow each other chronologically. The main difference is geographers focus on where things are happening and historians focus on when things are happening.

We focused a lot on this map. We talked about what similarities and differences we noticed. Some similarities I noticed were this map shows every country and its territory and it shows the continents and oceans. Some major differences I noticed were Texas and Antarctica were no longer part of the United States, Mexico was larger, the countries were shown by flag, some flags were different, and some countries were larger or smaller than originally. I think the point of this map was to show how some geographers are predicting the countries to change. I thought it was pretty interesting that this is how some people are predicting these countries will change.

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