ACTIVITY: SOUNDS LIKE

1. MOUTH- EVE- REY- EAST

MT. EVEREST
2. SAW- HOUR- ADD- EAST- EARTH
SAHARA DESERT
3. PASS- SAFE- PICK- OUST- SUN
PACIFIC OCEAN
4. BEAR- MODE- AT- TRY- ANGLE
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
5. FOUL- AWE- WON
PALAWAN
What is Geography?
Geography is …

all around us!

Questions on your mind …

• Are you interested in the world

all around you?

• Do you want to be able to make

informed decisions about where
to work, where to live and where
to go on holiday?

• Are you concerned about the

environment?

• Do you want to develop skills you

will find useful long after you
have left school?
What is Geography?

“Geography” - 2 Greek words geo (Earth)

graphy (writing/ description)

It is a subject that studies…

• Earth’s surfaces and processes that shape it

• relationships between humans and physical

environments
 DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY

•THE DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION OF

THE WORLDS LANDSCAPES AND A
SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF INHABITED
LANDSCAPES AND THEIR DESCRIPTION
OVER THE GLOBE.
DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY
•THE SCIENCE OF THE EARTH AND ITS LIFE,
DEALING WITH LAND SEA, AND AIR
CONDITIONS; THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS
AND ANIMALS LIFE ESPECIALLY WITH MAN
AND HIS INDUSTRIES.
 DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY
•THE STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF
THE EARTH AND ITS ATMOSPHERE, AND OF
HUMAN ACTIVITY AS IT AFFECTS AND IS
AFFECTED BY THESE, INCLUDING THE
DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATIONS AND
RESOURCES, LAND USE, AND INDUSTRIES
 FATHER/PIONEER
•ERATOSTHENES - A GREEK MATHEMATICIAN,
GEOGRAPHER, POET, ASTRONOMER, AND MUSIC
THEORIST. HE WAS A MAN OF LEARNING,
BECOMING THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN AT THE
LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA. HE INVENTED THE
DISCIPLINE OF GEOGRAPHY, INCLUDING THE
TERMINOLOGY USED TODAY.
•THE GREAT LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA IN ALEXANDRIA,
EGYPT, WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST
SIGNIFICANT LIBRARIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.
THE LIBRARY WAS PART OF A LARGER RESEARCH
INSTITUTION CALLED THE MOUSEION, WHICH WAS
DEDICATED TO THE MUSES, THE NINE GODDESSES
OF THE ARTS
Purpose of Geography
is to develop …
• the knowledge and understanding of
where we live, other places, how people
and the places interrelate Earth’s
surfaces and processes that shape it

• the skills needed to carry out

geographical study (eg, enquiry,
mapwork and fieldwork) – 3Ws, 1H

• interest in, and to encourage an

appreciation of the world around us

• develop concern for the world around us

and an ability and willingness to take
positive action both locally and globally
 But, knowing one isolated geographical fact does not mean there is
geographical understanding!

For example: Knowing Mt Everest is the highest peak (8850m) in the

world is not understanding geography …unless we seek to
understand

Why it is How its location

the highest influences the
political
peak?
security,
downstream
How is it flooding and
created? access to water
of the
surrounding
areas?

Therefore, understanding Mt Everest in terms of the interlinked physical

processes and human activities is then truly geographical
understanding!
TWO SUB-DIVISIONS
1. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
• GEOMORPHOLOGY (EARTH’S FORM AND
STRUCTURE)
• HYDROLOGY (STUDY OF ALL FORMS OF WATER
UNDERGROUND, OVER-GROUND AND IN THE
CLOUD)
• CLIMATOLOGY (STUDY OF LONG TERM WEATHER
CALLED CLIMATE AND ITS EFFECTS ON LIFE)
• BIOGEOGRAPHY ( STUDY OF PLANT AND ANIMAL
LIFE AND PROCESSES)
• PEDOLOGY ( THE STUDY OF SOILS)
 2. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
• CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY (TRYING TO UNDERSTAND AND DESCRIBE
THE OCCURRENCE OF VARIOUS CULTURAL GROUPS WITH REFERENCE
TO SPACE.
• ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND THE BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT).
• HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY (UNDERSTANDING WORLD HISTORY IN
TERMS OF SPACE AND TIME).
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
• POPULATION GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING CULTURAL COMPOSITION, GROWTH,
MIGRATION PATTERNS AS RELATED TO NATURE OF PLACES).
• POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (STUDYING POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL FEATURES OF
REGIONS)
• SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY (DEFINING WHAT COULD BE TERMED RURAL AND URBAN
AREAS AND WHY?)
• HEALTH (MEDICAL) GEOGRAPHY (HEALTH AND DISEASE STUDY ACROSS SPACE AND
PLACE).
 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
•DESCRIBE AND STUDY THE SURFACE FEATURES OF THE
EARTH- OCEANS , CONTINENTS, MOUNTAIN, HILLS,
RIVERS, STREAM, LAKES, PONDS, GULFS, BAYS,
ESTUARIES, PENINSULAS AND MANY OTHER LAND AND
WATER FEATURES
 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHER'S
•THEY MAKE MAP SHOWING WHERE METAL ORES,
COAL, OIL AND NATURAL GAS ARE LOCATED IN THE
EARTH. THEY ALSO MAP THE CLIMATES OF THE
WORLD.
 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
•DESCRIBES AND STUDIES WHAT HUMAN BEING
DO IN AND ON LAND AND WATER. IT IS ALSO
CALLED POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, USES MAPS
THAT LOCATE THE BOUNDARIES OF
COUNTRIES, STATES AND COUNTIES-LINES
THAT HAVE BEEN DECIDED UPON BY PEOPLE.
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
• IT DIVIDE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD INTO GROUPS
CALLED CULTURES. THE PEOPLE OF A CULTURE SHARE
MANY THINGS, IN TERMS OF CLOTHING, FOOD
PRODUCTION, CHILD REARING, PHYSICAL FEATURES,
AND MANY OTHER THINGS.
 ACTIVITY
•GROUP ACTIVITY: HUMAN TABLEAU
•IN GROUPS, LEARNERS WILL PERFORM HUMAN
ACTIVITIES REFERRING TO A CERTAIN PLACE
SUCH AS HILLY, MOUNTAINOUS, COASTAL,
RIVERS, LAKES TO SHOW THEIR WAY OF LIFE.
ANALYSIS

•HOW DO YOU FIND THE ACTIVITY?

ABSTRACTION
•FROM ALL OF THE
AFOREMENTIONED, WHAT IS YOUR
UNDERSTANDING ABOUT
GEOGRAPHY?
 APPLICATION
•HOW DOES YOUR
ENVIRONMENT AFFECT
YOUR WAY OF LIVING?
 ASSESSMENT

(10-ITEM QUIZ)

•GIVE THE DEFINITION, ETYMOLOGY,

BRANCHES OF GEOGRAPHY
 ASSIGNMENT
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