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Geography |
- the systematic study of the spatial patterns of all phenomena on or near the Earth’s surface. - a scientific and descriptive study of the Earth’s surface. - interactions between people and their environment. - a study of spatial and local variation. - a study of spatial patterns.
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Aristotle |
the first person to demonstrate that the Earth was spherical. |
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Eratosthenes |
who accurately calculated the circumference of the earth using geometry and was the use the word geography. |
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Claudius Ptolemy |
wrote a book called Geography and designed the forerunner to longitude and latitude lines. |
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Al Idrisi |
an Arabic geographer who worked for the King of Sicily to create an accurate representation of the world. |
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Abraham Ortelius |
designed the first modern atlas: Theatre of the World.
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George Perkins Marsh |
first described how natural systems are impacted by human actions. he is considered the first modern environmentalist.
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Carl Sauer |
In 1925, he argued that cultural landscapes, the interactions between people and their environment, should be the focus of geographic study. |
