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= Instructions for editing the Wiki =

In a typical lecture class, I discuss these branches of geography and careers associated as well as some of the basic tools of geographers. Your assignment is to pick a branch, career, or tool and explain it. Please feel free to use pictures, video, or link to web pages to help explain. Once you pick your term and decide how you will explain it, then click the edit button, go to your term and type or paste your explanation after the term on the list. Remember to include your name so you get points. See the example of maps on the tools list. You get to choose your term, but this is a first come first serve assignment, so the later you do it, the less choice you will have. = = = Branches of Geography =

1 Cartography: Is the art or science of making maps. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cartography Gilda Rodrigues

Monica Gonzalez
3 Cultural Geography

Cultural Geography Is the study of people and how the local geography has had an effect on the development of that area and their daily lives. In other words how adapting to their climate and the general geography of that area influence the way that those people their society developed. It also studies how present day cultures still are influenced by the area and geography of their surroundings, for example if you live in a rural area the landscape and natural environment around you would have more of an impact on your daily life then if you lived and spent your days in a hugely developed area like New York city. There would still be some influence, the climate for example, but the impact of the surrounding landscape would not be as obvious.

{ Summary by Karen Villalpando }

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4 Demography Demography is the statistical study of populations.These statistics represent the changing structure of human populations. Commonly used demographics of humans include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), education, home ownership, employment status, and location. Example of San Bernardino’s demographics: http://www.sbcity.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=12189 -**__Angel Ojeda__** 5 Developmental Geography 6 Economic Geography

The branch I chose to look into was economic geography. The reason this one sparked my interests is because I am a business major, but most importantly it’s because several years ago I read an article about how Brazil should have been or will be a super power country just like The United States of America, Germany, China, Japan and ETC.

The reason why they should have been or will be a super power is because of their agriculture and raw material. Brazil is a country that has the greatest potential to export their goods and become a very profitable country. The reason why they have been delayed or derailed from becoming a super power is because of their geography. The country is covered in mountains, hills, and destinations that cannot easily be accessible. The roads are narrow, dangerous or even non-existent. The cities are separated by harsh terrains that makes it quite difficult to build proper roads, airports, trains, and reliable communication methods. All of these factor into trying to export and gain a greater GDP in their country.

The study of economic geography plays a role into the article above because it analyzes and researches ways to overcome adversities such as Brazil’s. The study focuses on geography and economics as a whole. This to me is just very interesting.

Studying economic geography can lead to careers in Real Estate, Traffic Manager, and Market Researcher. I was able to find these careers at [].

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Cesar Melendez

7 Environmental Geography: The branch of geography that describes the interactions between humans/societies and their natural environment. -Andrea Anguiano

8 Geomorphology:

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 * Geomorphology** is the branch of geology that is concerned with the structure, origin, and development of the topographical features of the earth’s surface. An example would be that of changes in the earth’s surface after a volcanic eruption as that which I saw when Mount St. Helen erupted in the early 1980’s. And also, with the shift of earth’s surfaces after each earthquake has happened.


 * Barbara Ciaravino**

9 Glaciologist: **Glaciology** is the study of snow and ice and their physical properties. More specifically, **glaciologists** analyze the formation, movement, and effects of the different kinds of glaciers, for example alpine and arctic glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and ice shelves. Lidia Quintanilla 10 Historical Geography

 Historical Geography is a study that focuses on the history, or past, of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical geographies. Historical Geography covers a wide range of past issues and topics regarding human, physical, fictional, and theoretical geography.



For an example please copy and paste the link into your URL. http://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/

Sahlah Storks.

11 Hydrology // Hydrology is a branch of science which deals with the properties of the water on and below the earth's surface. A typical hydrologist works within the fields of environmental science & physical geography. Although Hydrology may seem like a small topic that has to deal with just water, it is actually quite a vast subject. Topics within Hydrology can vary from precipitation to things like the water content of volcanic eruptions. //

//** This is an awesome video that can further your understanding on the subject of Hydrology. **// [|Hydrology 101]

- **FARAZ ABBASI**

12 Medical Geography

Medical geography studies the effects of locale and climate upon health. It aims to improve the understanding of the various factors which affect the health of populations and hence individuals. It is also called health geographics.

Source: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=18879


 * George Sigar**

13 Paleogeography-is the acquired knowledge about geography pertaining to prehistoric times. For example the image below is from late Paleozoic where the tectonic plates were still connected.

Vanessa Loera

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14 Physical Geography. Physical Geography is the branch of geography concerned with natural features and phenomena of the earth's surface, as land forms, drainage features, climates, soils and vegetation. The British Dictionary also defines physical geography as the branch of geography that deals with the natural features of the earth's surface.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/physical%20geography?s=t

"physical geography." Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. HarperCollins Publishers. 18 Aug. 2015. .

15 Political Geography 16 Population Geography

Population geography is a division of human geography. It is the study of the ways in which spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations are related to the nature of places. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. Density maps are used to focus on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context. Some of the most common maps used are choropleth, isoline and dot maps.

Choropleth Isoline

Dot

Lindsey Skaggs

17 Transportation Geography also transport geography, is a branch of economic geography that investigates the movement if and connections between things of interest of people: people themselves, vehicles, commodities, and information. ~Monique D. Foreman

Transportation geography is a branch of Economic geography that particularly investigates the movement of and connections between things of interet to people: people themselves, vehicles, commodities, information. Transportation, or more basically, movement is fundamental to the economic activity of exchange. Sara Sanchez

18 Urban Geography: Urban Geography concentrates on the parts of the earths surface that have a high concentration of buildings and infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_geography


 * Sandra Calderon**

= Careers in Geography =

19 Cartographer 20 Climate Change Analyst 21 Demographer 22 Forester ====Forester's are persons who practice forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forest. Forester's activites include timber harvesting, ecological resotration and management of protected areas. Forester's are often employed by private industry, federal, and state land management agencies and private consulting firms.==== Leticia Villasenor 23 Geointelligence Specialist 24 Geospatial Analyst 25 GIS Technician: Someone who make maps and customized geographic information systems (**GIS**) applications. They utilize data to map out things such as city or county boundaries, structures, flood or fire zones and manipulate data to serve a variety of purposes. They read and interpret maps, manipulate and understand digital land data, and manage data entered into a **GIS** database. The common tools that are used for GIS Mapping is a Plotter and GIS Mapping Software.

__http://study.com/articles/GIS_Technician_Job_Description_and_Info_About_Becoming_a_GIS_Technician.html__

Careers

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Orange-County-Sheriff's-Office,-Orlando/jobs/GIS-Technician-98d63f522a9d8ddf?q=gis+technician+salary https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/413546000

- //Angie Johnson-//

26 Market Analyst

Career: Market Analyst

Responsible for performing research and providing insights regarding the market, trends, competitors, potential and existing customers, and current campaigns. A Market Analyst also may examine a campaigns return on investments, identify new market opportunities, complete concept-testing for new products, perform extensive market research, evaluate market penetration, develop groups and solicit customer feedback.

Summing it up a Market Analyst has to cover and research all angles of the field to make the right assessment. Sara Sanchez

27 Photogrammetrist 28 Surveyor: One whose profession is to determine three dimensional positions of points and the distances between them. These points are used to establish land maps, boundaries for ownership, locations for buildings, or any other purpose required by government. -Lisa Morales 29 Transportation Planner 30 Urban Planner

= Tools of Geographers =

31 GIS A geographic information system(GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data. Below are some pictures explaining the GIS Reina Garcia

==== 32 Globes: A globe is a three dimensional scale model of the Earth or other round body. Because it is spherical or ball shaped, it can represent surface features, directions, and distances more accurately than a flat map. -Jessica Quintanilla ====



33 Maps: A two dimensional representation of the spatial distribution of selected phenomenon - they show distance, direction, size and shape in horizontal (two-dimensional) relationships. They depict what is where and are helpful in providing clues as to why such a distribution occurs.-Professor Schmidt

34 Mathematical Modeling - A Mathematical Model is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and languages. These models can be seen being applied to natural sciences, engineering, as well as social sciences. A model may help explain a system and to study the effects of different components, and to make predictions about behaviour. When a engineer analyzes a system to be controlled or optimized, they may use a mathematical model. Engineers are able to build a descriptive model of the system as a hypothesis of how the system could work, or even try to estimate an unforeseeable event that could affect the system. - **Marvin Hoggatt**

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35 Remote Sensing- Remote Sensing of Environment serves the remote sensing community with the publication of results on theory, science, applications and technology of remote sensing of Earth resources and environment.

http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=12503&tip=sid

 **- Christina Camarena**

36 Statistics-

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I have posted this slide show because I want you all to understand that even if you think you are bad at geography, you are not. You have just never been taught most likely. Children are expected to meet standards in grade school, to be able to do a certain level of math by first grade or to read at a certain level by second grade. There is NO standard for geography ever in the California school system, or in most other states. So by say first grade we do not expect children to be able to draw a map of their neighborhood - though we should! So it is my belief that none of you are bad at geography and you will all be good at it by the time we are done.

Discussion Area: Please reflect on what you have learned this week and post a comment below.

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