What is Geography?

1. What is Geography? Geography is the study ofWHAT IS WHERE, HOW IT GOT THERE, andWHY WE CARE.

2. What is Human Geography – Key Questions • What is human geography? • What are geographic questions? • Why do geographers use maps, and what do maps tell us? • Why are geographers concerned with scale and connectedness? • What are geographic concepts, and how are they used in answering geographic questions?

3. What is Geography? Geography is a representation of the whole known world together with the phenomena which are contained therein. Ptolemy, Geographia 2nd Century A.D. Geography is the science of place. Its vision is grand, its view panoramic. It sweeps the surface of the Earth, charting the physical, organic and cultural terrain, their areal differentiation, and their ecological dynamics with humankind. Its foremost tool is the map. Leonard Krishtalka, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 20th Century A.D.

4. Divisions of Geography • Physical Geography Human/Cultural Geography • Rocks and Minerals Population • Landforms Settlements • Soils Economic Activities • Animals Transportation • Plants Recreational Activities • Water Religion • Atmosphere Political Systems • Rivers and Other Water Bodies Social Traditions • Environment Human Migration • Climate and Weather Agricultural Systems • Geotechniques • GIS, GPS, Remote-Sensing, Cartography • Geography is a bridge between the natural and social sciences. Geography is a holistic or synthesizing science.

5. The Five Themes of Geography

6. Geography of Food Food Place of Invention Current Production coffee Ethiopia Tropics oranges South Asia, India US, Mediterranean pork China, South Asia Worldwide wheat Near East US, Russia, Argentina tea China Asia oats Near East Temperate Climates pepper South America S. America, Worldwide

7. The effects of the global food price changes detailed in this graph must be understood in geographic context.

9. Coffee Consumption (per capita)

10. COFFEE PRODUCTION Top Ten Coffee Growing Countries (Yellow) First domesticated in Ethiopia, coffee has come to be a major export crop for colonial countries and continues to provide much of the export income in these less developed countries. In Uganda, 70-80% of export revenue is generated by coffee. Many issues are raised by the continuation of such colonial economics.

11. Tilt of the earth on its axis. • The earth is tilted 23.5º from perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic. • Tilt is currently constantly toward Polaris Animation

12. Effects of the Seasons • Daylength

13. Population Concentrations

16. Source: Guardian News and Media, 2012 (www.guardian.co.uk)

17. Geographic Information Science (GIS) • GIS is "an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information." Click on the map above to use the National Atlas of the United States.

18. REMOTE SENSING (click here)

19. A suburb of Algiers, Algeria What do the patterns, textures, and shapes visible in this image tell us about this place?

20. Jobs in Geography

21. Famous Geography Students Prince William of Wales – Majored in Geography at University of Saint Andrews, Scotland Michael Jordan – Majored in Cultural Geography at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Mother Teresa - Taught Geography and History in Calcutta for 15 Years Immanuel Kant – the famous philosopher also taught everything from geography to physics.

22. Fieldwork: Geographers as Modern Explorers and Observers

23. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 2002

24. Mt. San Jacinto State Park, Idylwild, CA, 2001

25. Rocky Mountain National Park, 2003

26. China, 2004

27. Franz Joseph Glacier, New Zealand, 2002

28. For more photos and slideshows go to: • http://www.glendale.edu/geo/reed/general/personal.htm