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Activity Sheet No. 11b
Subject:

 Disciplines and Ideas in the

Social Sciences
Type of Activity:

 Concept Digest
 Drills/ Exercises
Activity Title:

The Disciplines of
Geography Part 2
Learning Target:

trace the historical foundations and social

contexts that led to the development of
geography as a discipline.
Reference:

Gonzalez, Maria Carinnes P. Disciplines and

Ideas in the Social Sciences, Diwa
Learning System Inc.,Legazpi Street,
Legazpi Village, 1229 Makati City,
Philippines,pp.35-40.
 Important
Personalities in
Geography
• Reminder: Do not copy or draw the images, illustrations,
and screenshots.
1) Anaximander (610-546 BCE) was a pre-Socratic
Greek philosopher, geographer, biologist, and
astronomer.. He provided a round map divided into
three continents (Europe, Asia, and Libya.)
surrounded by an ocean.
2) Eratosthenes (276-194 BCE), using a geometry,
became the first to have calculated accurately the
circumference of Earth is being 40 233 kilometers.
His figure was only 151 kilometers off the current
measurement done using satellite technology.
3) Ptolemy (100-178 BCE) One of his most important
contributions to geography was the formulation of
map coordinates by utilizing and developing the
concepts of latitude and longitude.
4) IBN Battuta (1304-1368 CE) was a Morocan
Explorer who published his 30-year journey in his
book Journey. He traveled farther and longer than
Marco Apolo by visiting all the places in the known
Muslim world, as well as non-Muslim lands.
5) Carl Ritter (1779-1859), a German geographer.

Contribution: Use of the comparative method in

understanding and classifying the different
formations occurring over the surface of the Earth.

Please Read
6) Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a Prussian
geographer and explorer, is considered to have laid
the foundations of biogeography.

Biogeography, the study of

the geographic
distribution of plants, animals,
and other forms of life.
7) William Moris Davis (1850-1934) is hailed as the
Father of American Geography.
8) Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918), a French
geographer, is considered to be the founder of
modern French geography.
 Videos and links
• https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=93LLwiMjDko&ab_channel=
CrashCourse

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RjUyXrYMKDw&ab_channel=AmitSengupta
Activity
Answer the following questions in 4-5 sentences.

1) Why do we need to study or learn this concepts

about the contributions of geographers to this field.

2) Whom do you think has the greatest contributions

to the field of geography? Explain. (at least 2
geographers)
Rubric:
10 8 6 4

Thoroughly Ideas are Ideas Litte or no

explained explained, somewhat explanation
ideas, coherent in explained, of ideas,
extremely writing but somewhat lacks
coherent there are coherent in coherency
writing and some errors writing and and have
few errors in in grammar. have many many errors
grammar. errors in that hurt
grammar. understanding
.