1.1 Introduction to Geography

• Meaning and scope of Geography
• Branches of Geography
• Relationship between Geography and other disciplines
• Career opportunities related to Geography

• explain the meaning and scope of Geography
• analyse the branches of Geography
• explore the relationship between Geography and other disciplines
• identify career pathways related to Geography
• appreciate the importance of studying Geography

“Why study Geography?”

“What can a geographer do that a historian or an economist cannot?”

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1. What Geography is, and its branches
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   The question geography asks, the two halves of the subject, and how it connects to everything else.
2. Careers and the value of studying Geography
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   Where the subject leads, the skills it builds, and why those skills are in demand.
3. Asking geographical questions of a Kenyan place
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   The four questions of geography applied to tea in the highlands and to Mombasa as a port.
4. Physical geography: Kenya's natural environment
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   Each branch of physical geography named through Kenyan landforms, climate, water, living things and soils.
5. Human geography: people and activities in Kenya
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   Population, economic activity, settlement, political units and culture as patterns on the Kenyan map.
6. Practical geography: the geographer's toolkit
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   Maps, statistics, fieldwork, photographs, remote sensing and GIS as techniques both branches depend on.
7. Geography working with other disciplines
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   How Geography borrows from and contributes to other subjects, shown through flooding in Nairobi.
8. Studying your own place: a geographical enquiry
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   A five-step enquiry into the school neighbourhood that uses all three parts of Geography.