What Is Geography

What is Geography week 2 Geographic Thought and recital I have always thought that geographics was the get hold of of land, how it was formed and where it will be in years to come. I have realized that there is more than to geography than this. A literal translation of geography would be to describe or write or so the globe (What is Geography 2012). The first person to use the word geography wasEratosthenes, who was an ancient Greek. Geography has been called the introduction discipline and the bridge between the human and thephysical science(Sullivan 2000).There is human geography, physical geography, Marxist geography and also feminist geography. Human geography is a sleeve of the social sciences that studies the world, its people, communities, and cultures and has an emphasis on traffic of space and place. Human geography differs from physical geography mainly in that it has a greater focal nous on studying human activities and is more open to qualitative research metho dologies (What is Geography 2012).Physical geography is that branch ofnatural science which deals with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environs like heatmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, andgeosphere, as opposed to the ethnic orbuilt environment, the domain ofhuman geography (What is Geography 2012). This is the geography that most people have in mind of. There is also is a type ofcritical geographythat uses the theories and philosophy ofMarxismto examine thespatial dealing ofhuman geography.In Marxist geography, the relations that geography has traditionally analyze such as natural environment and spatial relations are reviewed as outcomes of the mode of material production (What is Geography 2012). As I mentioned previously there is also feminist geography which is an approach inhuman geographywhich applies the theories, methods and critiques of womens libto the study of the human environment, society and geographical space (What is Geography 2012).What I find most enkindle is the discipline of cartography, which is the mapping of the world. I find it interesting on how they could design a map in the ancient era and actually use it for exploration. Maps started out as two dimensional charts to what we use now, Google earth. In the late 20th century, advances in electronic technology have led to further revolution in cartography.Specificallycomputerdevices such as computer screens, plotters, printers, scanners (remote and document) and analytic stereo plotters along with visualization, image processing, spatial analysis and database software, have democratized and greatly expanded the making of maps, particularly with their ability to produce maps that show slightly incompatible features, without engraving a new printing plate (Sullivan 2000).Websites such as Google Earth use Google Earth which is simply based on 3D maps, with the capability to show 3D buildings and structures (such as bridges), which consist of users submissions applySketchUp, a3D modelingprogram software. The technology that is used is pretty amazing even to the point that these types of features are used in the military to pinpoint certain targets. Works CitedDepartment of Geography and Environmental Resources, What is Geography. termination modified 2012. Accessed October 3, 2012. National Geographic, What is Geography. Last modified 2012. Accessed October 4, 2012. http//education. nationalgeographic. com/education/media/what- Sullivan, Dan (2000). Mapmaking and its History. Rutgers University. Retrieved 10/3/2012 from http//www. math. rutgers. edu/cherlin/History/Papers2000/sullivan. html.