PROJECT 1: START


Welcome to the first project! As this is mostly a project-based course, you will do the majority of the required learning of all of the major concepts through, well, your own work. If you need me to explain concepts or help you find resources, I am glad too! Just make sure your work is done at the grade twelve level. Ensure that your bibliographies are robust and filled with excellent scientific references. If you need a tutorial on how to research well, let me know! I am always happy to help!



Upon completion of this lesson project the student will be identify the major physical elements of geography.

Geography consists of at least two different sub-fields of knowledge with similar methodology: Physical geography and human geography. The following table also helps to make the differences between these two types of geography more apparent. This table describes some of the phenomena or elements studied by each of these sub-fields of knowledge. Knowing what kinds of things are studied by geographers provides us with a better understanding of the differences between physical and human geography.

 Retrieved from: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/1b.html

Table 1b-1: Some of the phenomena studied in physical and human geography.

 Physical Geography

 Human 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

 Oceans

 Urban Systems