Introduction to Syllabus:
This year we are going to learn about
Human Geography.
“Human geography is the study
of the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth”
- Ellen Semple (She is an
American geographer)
Human geography includes the study of
inter-relationship among physical environment and manmade environment.
That’s why in the last year we
firstly get to known with the elements of natural environment and this year
will study about nature-human relationship.
Can you recall elements of natural
environment or physical geography?
We have studied earth movements,
weathering, erosion, climatic regions, global climatic regions, ocean
resources, Indian ocean, biomes, disaster management. So, rocks, minerals,
landforms, soil, plants, animals, atmosphere, erosional agents like rivers,
winds, climate, weather, ocean and other water bodies etc. are elements of
physical geography.
Similarly, this year we are going to
study elements of human geography. What are the elements of human geography?
Whenever we say human, the first
thing related to this is number of human beings i.e., population. Where
does this population reside i.e. settlement, what they eat - i.e. agriculture,
for earning human do economic activities, concept of a region
and its development. So, these are the elements of human geography. It
is important to study the cause-and-effect relationship between physical and
human geography and for that in the last we will try to summarize the nature
and scope of human geography.
I hope you will enjoy learning with
me!
Wish you all the best!
Observe these images and spot the differences. Categorized those differences into elements of physical geography and elements of human geography.
In the next blog we will discuss about first chapter of our syllabus.
