2. What Is GEOGRAPHY all about?
An Introduction to understanding
Important Geographic Ideas
Title Page

3. What does Geography mean to you?
Geography allows you to enquire into the world you live by developing skills needed to make decisions
Meaning of Geo

4. DECISION MAKING THINKING SKILLS PRACTICAL SKILLS SOCIAL AND
VALUING SKILLS
Skills for decisions
DECISION MAKING

5. People who are able to make complex decisions using
THINKING, PRACTICAL SOCIAL AND VALUING SKILLS
are urgently required for a wide variety of occupations
Here are some examples;
Tourist Officer, Geologist, Publicity Agent, Conservation Officer, Journalist,Landscape Gardener, Diplomat, Farmer, Photographer, Business Manager, Export Agent, Soldier, Cartographer, Ecologist, Land Agent, Market Researcher, Surveyor, Regional Planner, Mining Engineer, Sociologist, Lawyer, Editor, Oceanographer, Teacher…
Examples of Jobs

6. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT Physical
Biological
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
INTERACTION
CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
Interaction diagram
Social
Economic
Political

7. The major aim of Geography is to develop an understanding of the environment as the home of people.
Geographers do this by accounting for all the factors that make up the cultural and natural environment and then see how they interact
Aim of Geo

9. Important Geographic Ideas
These main ideas help give us simple meanings to the world around us
Combined together they enable us to understand the idea of environment

10. Culture and Perception
Location
Distance
Accessibility
Culture and Perception
Patterns
Processes
Regions
ENVIRONMENT
Systems
Interaction
Change

11. LOCATION
Refers to the position of a phenomena (thing) in terms of distance and direction. The place it occupies in an environment.

12. DISTANCE
Not only measured as a length but can also by measured by travel time, transport cost or position in a rank.

13. (people, objects and ideas)
ACCESSIBILITY
The measure of how easy it can be to move from one location to another.
(people, objects and ideas)

15. PATTERNS
Things that interact or are related often form a pattern in an environment.

16. A sequence of actions which modify or maintain the environment.
PROCESSES
A sequence of actions which modify or maintain the environment.

17. REGIONS
The surface of the earth can be divided into units. This can be at many scales. Often arranged due to a set of patterns and processes

19. INTERACTION
Things in an environment can affect each other. Landscapes are the visible result of processes interacting in the environment.

21. CHANGE
People, as a group or as individuals, through their decisions and actions may cause change. It is a normal process in both cultural and natural environments. It may be small or great in its effects.

23. Systems
A set of natural and/or cultural phenomena which are linked together in some way. The main components of a system are; sources of energy, linkages, flows, processes, dimensions.

25. Culture and Perception
People respond to the world as viewed through their culture. People living together develop a common way of life (culture) which influences the way they view and understand their environment (perception).