BEED-CE SUMMER Presentation

1. Photo from google. No copyright intended. For educational use only.

2. What would happen if maps were
undiscovered?

4. INTRODUCTION:
In Earth man lives on
the surface where
conditions or the
growth of life are
favorable. This is
called the human
habitat.

5. It is composed of four spheres

7. 2.Lithosphere
-is the solid
portion of the
Earth. It is made
up of thin crust of
soil, rocks and
minerals that has
penetrated.

8. Hydrosphere
3.It is the water
portion which covers
about 71% of the
Earth’s surface.

9. 4.Biosphere is the life
sphere which is
composed of plants
and animals.

10. These four spheres interact with one another
producing diverse environment which form
the bases for geographical study.

11. What is geography?
 It is from Greek word, geographia,
literally "earth description" is a
field of science devoted to the
study of the lands, the features, the
inhabitants, and the phenomena
of Earth.
 Geography is a broad division of
human knowledge which is
concerned with the study of the
Earth’s surface and its relation to
the activities of man.

12. Herodotus (484-425
B.C) was not only the
“father of history” but
also of geography.

14. • Man is the architect of the earth’s
surface. He fashions and
modifies it according to his
needs. The man – made features
which includes the different
types of settlements

15. All in all,
geography
is the study
of the earth
as the
home of
man.

16. Nature of geographic study

17. What portion of the earth’s surface the
geographer directs his study?
• The field of the geographer is limited to a
thin shell of the earth extending about
thirty (30) miles into the atmosphere and
about three (3) miles below the earth. Only
within this zone, some thirty-three (33)
miles in thickness are found the physical
conditions that make ordinary life possible.
This referred to as the human habitat.

18. The systematic
study of the origin,
distribution, and
significance of the
major physical
features of the
earth, such as
landforms,
climates, oceans
and natural
resources.

19. It gives emphasis
to the study of
man’s imprints
upon the earth

20. This unique position of geography in the
richness of its contents provide a common
territory for the sciences and the
humanities to meet it integrates and
provides the connecting links between and
among the various disciplines that have
something to do with the earth’s surface.

21. Sir Patrick Geddes
He called geography the
“synthesis and mother of
all sciences.”

22. He called
geography as,
“the basis of
history.”
Immanuel Kant

23. Professor Houston outlines the periphery of his
conception of geography as a study of the earth
and its relation to the solar system,
government, society and nature. Moreover,
geography is the core in the unity of knowledge
and the queen of the sciences.

24. Geography as Natural Science
• Natural science embraces both the
biological and physical sciences. It deals
with the study of nature-plants, animals,
rocks, minerals, matter and energy.
Geography belongs to the field of natural
science because the physical earth is its
central theme.

25. Geography as Social Science
• Social science deals with the organization
and the development of human society and
man as a member of social groups.
• Geography takes up the study of man as
the architect of the earth’s surface.

26. Geography as Humanities
• The cultural elements of geography include
the study of man’s institutions, such as
language, religion, and fine arts, which are
the domain of the humanities.
• Man’s ways of thinking and reacting to
natural and social environment must take
account of his language by which he
communicates, and his religion by which
his code of moral conducts is directed.

27. Concept of Natural Resources

28. The physical elements of the earth which are
within the domain of geography are whether and
climate, landforms, the oceans, and the
resources. Natural resources are the material
things of economic value which man did not
bring into existence such as water, soils, forest,
fisheries, and minerals including coal and oil.
Climate, topography, and geographic location
relative to world market should also be included.

29. Norton Ginsburg defines “Natural
resources in their broadest sense to
include all the freely given material
phenomena of nature within the
zone of man’s activities, plus the
additional non-material quality of
situation or location. The
association of these elements of
land, air, sea, and situation in a
single area is called its “resource
base” or “resource endowment”.

31. Natural resources embrace the whole physical
base in geographic study. Geography is
concerned with the use of space and land.
Natural resources are the foundation of our
wealth and this field of geography is
essentially a study of the influence and the
use of these resources for social, economic,
and political development.

32. Methods of geography
As in many other sciences, in geography, a
systematic and direct observations and
descriptions are preliminary and necessary to
the interpretation of the relation between the
physical environment and man’s activities.

33. The results of these observations are then are then
synthesized and analyzed and recorded in a map,
graph, or chart.

34. In the topical or
systematic way, the
various aspects of the
natural and human
environments are analyzed
and studied separately. In a regional
approach, the
Philippines is
chosen as a
region for
geographic study.

35. The exact nature of the relationship
between man and land is viewed in
two ways. First, the physical
environment is but the stage where
the play is being enacted. The
physical environment may set the
limit but it is not the determining
factor in man’s progress. Second,
the physical environment is the
determinant that sets the progress of
nations.

36. The better view is that the
progress of a country is
determined by the
industry, character, and
ingenuity of its people.

37. References:
• Geography and Natural Resources of the
Philippines
• Google

38. Prepared by:
Jona Jean Nudalo
Fatima Mae Suralta
Jewel Ann Miranda