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What Is Geography? California State University, Long Beach What IS geography? the study of the interactions between nature and society (how human activities alter the land's surface, water, climate, and ecosystems and also how natural processes, such as earthquakes, tsunami, disease outbreaks, climate change, and erosion, affect human societies; many geographers study natural hazards, resource management, pollution monitoring and abatement, and how humans affect global climates) the study of the spatial distribution of natural processes and/or human activities (many geographers focus on describing the spatial patterns of natural or human phenomena and analyzing the processes that form these patterns and how processes at global and local scales interact with one another) the study of Planet Earth as the home of humanity (the focus of this kind of geography is the physical and biological systems of the planet itself, such as the behavior of rivers and glaciers, the character of vegetation formations, weather prediction, climate modelling, reconstructing what past environments were like, and designing projects to restore habitats) the study of the regional differentiation of the earth's surface (how can a region be defined and described? what kinds of people live there and what is important to them? what do the landscapes look like? what sorts of travel opportunities does the region offer? what sorts of conflicts occur within them and between them and other regions and why?) Geographical concerns and themes: human-environment interactions, how we adapt to our environments, modify and depend on them location, including absolute location (e.g., latitude and longitude) and relative location (e.g., how far one city is from another and how that affects the amount of interaction between them) movement, patterns and processes by which people, goods, and ideas move across space places, including both the human and natural characteristics of particular places and the meaning of places to people living or visiting (or fantasizing about) them regions, including defining them and how they function and how people perceive them Geography majors learn how to use exciting tools that make them very employable: maps geographical information systems (GIS) satellite images focus groups, interviews, participant observation GPS and field work spatial statistics For more information: Dr. Paul Laris, Undergraduate Advisor Department of Geography California State University Long Beach, CA 90840-11011 (562) 985-1862 or -4321 (562) 985-8993 (fax) [email protected] http://www.csulb.edu/geography/