Geography is about earth space and its physical and cultural context
-Throughout geography͛s long history it has remained consistently focused on human-environmental interactions,
the interrelatedness of places, and the likenesses and differences in physical and cultural content of area that exist
from place to place
-The collective interests of geographers are summarized by the spatial and systems analytical questions they ask
-The responses to those questions are interpreted through basic concepts of space and place, location, distance,
direction, content evolution, spatial interaction, and regional organization
-in their study of the earth͛s surface as the occupied and altered space in which humans operate geographers may
concentrate on the integration of physical and cultural phenomena in a specific earth area (regional geography)
-They may instead emphasize systematic geography through the study of the earth͛s physical systems of spatial
and human concern or as here devote primary attention to people
-Human geography͛s focus is on human interactions both with the physical environments people occupy and alter
and with the cultural environments they have created
-It is also concerned with the ways people perceive the landscapes and regions they occupy, act within and
between them, make choices about them, and organizing them according to the varying cultural, political, and
economic interests of human societies
-Earth is the physical background to all humans and we must know how our home has been altered by our
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