LESSON NO.

8:
HUMAN
GEOGRAPHY
Subtopics:
• Geographic Grids, Site and Situation
• Functional Regions, The Human Environment, Definition of Terms
• Demographics, Population Pyramid, Life Expectancy
• Population Momentum, Geography of Health
 GROUP IV

RODOLFO SAYANG, JR. RHEA REPAJA ISABELO JEROME GREGORIO LEONARDO

JADULOS

NIÑA MIA BINAGATAN ARJAY VILLARDE

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
 Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch
of geography that studies spatial relationships between
human communities, cultures, economies, and their
interactions with the environment, examples of which is
studied in schools are urban sprawl, and urban
redevelopment.
 Human geography consists of a number of sub-
disciplinary fields that focus on different elements of
human activity and organization, for example, cultural
geography, economic geography, health geography,
historical geography, political geography, population
geography, rural geography, social geography, transport
geography, and urban geography.
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
(study of cultural products and norms)

DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY (with reference to the standard of living and quality of life)

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY (relationship between human economic systems and biophysical

environment)

MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY (application of geographical information to the study of health, disease

and health care)

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY (study of the human, physical, fictional theoretical and “real” geographies
of the past)

Fields of Human
Geography
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (study of spatially uneven outcomes of
political processes and the ways they are effected)

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY (variations in the distribution,

composition, migration, and growth of populations)

SETTLEMENT GEOGRAPHY (study of areas which have a

concentration to buildings and infrastructure)

URBAN GEOGRAPHY (study of cities, towns, and other areas of

relatively dense settlement)

Fields of Human
Geography
 Geographic Grid

Parallels Meridians
 What is geographic grid?
The geographic grid refers to the spherical
coordinate system of latitude and longitude
used to locate positions uniquely anywhere
on the surface of the Earth.
 What is the function of the geographic
grid?
The geographic grid is used to give a
specific location, by giving the intersection of
the latitude and longitude lines at that point.
North Latitude
Parallels
- Parallels are circles that
encompass the Earth and are
parallel to the equator.
- The Earth's longest parallel of
latitude is the Equator , which lies
midway between the two poles.
We use the Equator as a
fundamental reference line for
measuring position.

Latitude
- refers to the numbering system for
South Latitude the parallels
Meridians International Date Line

-Meridians are half circles that connect

the north and south poles.
-Prime Meridian is located at
0o longitude, which passes through
Greenwich, England. Also known as
Greenwich Meridian.
-International Date Line follows roughly
along 180 o longitude, and this meridian is
on the opposite side of the world from
the Prime Meridian

Longitude
- refers to the numbering system for
meridians.
International Friday

Date Line Saturday

Lat. 50° N, Long. 60 ° W
4° 23“ South and 21°
25“ North Latitude
or
12.879721° Latitude

116° West and 127°

East Longitude
or
121.774017° Longitude

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Parallels Latitude

Meridians Longitude
SITE AND
SITUATION
 Site refers to the physical
characteristics, such as the
topography, vegetative cover,
climatic conditions, and the like.

 Situation refers to the area

surrounding the place, and is
sometimes referred to as relative
location.