1.1 Geographic Space

Geographic Space 

What is the Geographic Space? 

Look around you, where are you sitting down? Where are you standing? Where are you walking? 

Every point of our planet that is accessible for human beings is a GEOGRAPHIC SPACE, where we build our lives and use all the resources that the planet gives us to survive. 

Any place that the human being can inhabit, transform or modify and also get a benefit from it will be part of the study of Geography. 

So, Geographic Space is the product of transformations that humans do for periods of time,

why? just to satisfy our needs like food, clothing, home, work even amusement.
Look at the next picture, how it changes from being a natural space to a geographic space..

   

This space continuously has to be transformed, as you can see in the picture from natural components, will go to social components, and here is where a new component is formed, the economic component.

Natural components:

Desert, waterfall, volcanoes, animals

Social components: 

People, culture,media, construction

Economic Components: 

Every space is different and develops in different way, why? well because of the natural resources it may posses or the government, the fluency of population, investments, and many other reasons that we'll find out during the class. 

• Transformation of a space implies removing all natural, to satisfy human needs, here is where you as a student have to be conscious about taking care of the only natural resources we have. You have a very important role taking care of our planet and your own geographic space. 

Look into your Dropbox Folder to see which activities we have to do for this topic.