Social sciences

Geography is a science which studies the Earth surfice and what is happening on it.
Geography is devided into three areas:
−Physical Geography
−Economic Geography
−Human Geography
Biome: Is an association of plants, trees and animals who live in the same area that depending of the climate
are different.
Biomes
Climate
Soil
Tropical forest
Hot and wet
weather
Very poor
Hot and dry,
Savanna
Poor
2 seasons
Desert
Very hot OR
cold. There isn't a Poor
lot of water
Decidious
forest
Climate: Oceanic,
Good for
Mediterranean,
agriculture
Continental
Taiga
Cold
Tundra
Artic climate,
very cold
Poor
(Permafrost)
Permafrost,
Always frozen
Vegetation
Location
Human impact
Asia, South of
America and
Large lealed and
Europe, a 3rd of Desforestation
huge trees
Brasil and
western Afrika
Increased presure
No much trees,
Eastern Afrika,
through hunting.
thorny bushes,
between tropical
Big agriculture
grass and
forest and desert
impact
baobab
Afrika, Asia,
Oceania,
Little impact
Cactuses
America and
(Oil)
Europe
Europe,China,
Very big, no
Japan, Eastern
place without
Trees (conifers)
USA, Canada
Human impact
and Mexico
Eurasia and
A big
Coliferes
Canada
desforestation
Lickens small
Around the
Unknown until
weeds moss
north pole
now
Latitude: How far apoints from the Equator.
Depending of the human impact we can find differents types of landscapes:
−Natural landscapes. Are those without human impact
−Trasformed landscapes. Are those in whick agriculture and the use of fire have transformed the enviroment
irreversibly.
−Ordered landscapes. Are theorecally create by a society actin in a rational and coherent manner.
Raw materials: everything that you can see before processing.
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Primary sector comprises economic activities concerned fairly directly with raw materials.
Mining
Forestry
Cattle raising
Fishing
Agriculture
Secundary sector. Uses industrial processes to transform raw materials. Basic industry, making−machine...
etc.
Basic industry (minerals)
Constumes
Goods
Industry
Terciary sectors. The terciary sector is services, isn't including another things relatied to the other 2 sectors.
E.g. transports, comunication, education....
4º sector This 4º sector will be internet, but isn't very shure.
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