Geography 

 

Courses Offered

 

The physical World 

• Rivers 

• Coasts 

• Forest 

• Tectonics 

• Climate & Weather

• Continents 

• Countries 

• Mountains 

• Oceans 

• Global Issues 

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The Human World

• world population 

• settlements 

• industry & Energy 

• Tourism & Development 

 

 

Why Geography 

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• ​To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun relationships, water cycles, wind and ocean currents).

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•   To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.

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• To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places, and environments.

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• To develop a mental map of your community, province or territory, country and the world so that you can understand the “where” of places and events.

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• To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.