Geography

Week 1
Colegio Inglés de Durango. Campus Saltillo
Teacher : Benjamin Naranjo
Before we start…
  1st. NO SPANISH, unless I can allow it
 2nd. You need to download an app for you tablet. MxGeo World Atlas (Free Version),
We’re going to use it sometimes in class.
 3rd How I will Evaluate:
 50% Written Exam
 10% assistance
 10% Class activities
 10% Conduct
 10% Homework

The Rules!!  10% Project

 4th. Every Monday, you must bring as Homework a summary of all we saw in class last
week, you can make it like you want, but it must be in your notebook. It will be half of
your Project evaluation.
 5th. To talk in class, please, raise your hand
 6th All the homework must be in the notebook, unless I say it won’t, in that case, at the
end it must be attached at your notebook.
 7th. All exams we make must be in the notebook.
 8th. The Tablet will only be use when the teacher indicate to do it.
  Homework: What is Geography?

Let’s start!
 Many authors  It is the study of the relationship between nature and society.

have different  It is the study of where the things are.

ideas of what is  It is the science of the space we live.

geography
So… what does the
geography study?
 Geography

Physical Human
Cartography
Geography Geography
 Physical
Geography

Geomorphology Hidrology Biogeography

Climatology Soil Geography Ecology

 Human
Geography

Population Cultural Economic Rural

Geography Geography Geography Geography

Historical Political Geography of Urban

Geography Geography hazards Geography
What can you
do with
geography?
  Choose 3 branches of geography and write an example of a
Homework relationship with your real life.