6-528: Glenn Thomas Trewartha (1896 – 1984) was an American geographer of Cornish American descent. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison , with a Ph.D. in 1924. He taught at the University of Wisconsin . He gave an address to the Association of American Geographers , "A Case for Population Geography", in which he argued that "fundamentally geography is anthropocentric, and if such
12-416: Is the case, that numbers, densities and qualities of the population provide the essential background for all geography. Population provide the essential background for all geography. Population is the point of reference from which all other elements are observed, and from which they all singly and collectively derive significance and meaning". He also wrote about climate, explaining that
18-452: The Greek suffix, "graphy", meaning "description", so a geographer is someone who studies the earth. The word "geography" is a Middle French word that is believed to have been first used in 1540. Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps , map making is actually the field of study of cartography , a subset of geography. Geographers do not study only the details of
24-423: The atmosphere was like "a pane of glass in a greenhouse... thus maintaining surface temperatures considerably higher than they otherwise would be." Geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography , the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" and
30-532: The natural environment or human society, but they also study the reciprocal relationship between these two. For example, they study how the natural environment contributes to human society and how human society affects the natural environment. In particular, physical geographers study the natural environment while human geographers study human society and culture. Some geographers are practitioners of GIS ( geographic information system ) and are often employed by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as in
36-550: The private sector by environmental and engineering firms. The paintings by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer and The Astronomer are both thought to represent the growing influence and rise in prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time of their painting in 1668–69. Subdividing geography is challenging, as the discipline is broad, interdisciplinary, ancient, and has been approached differently by different cultures. Attempts have gone back centuries, and include
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