Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Well, Pei Xin asked this question in class one day: Have we ever thought about why physical geography is put under Integrated Sciences? I thought it would be interesting to summarise this blog with this question as well as some other facts and notes about what we have learnt. Of course, the stuff I put up here are just really brief summaries of what we learnt, so everyone better go and mug still!

I remember Mr Heah once said, physical geography is a science on itself. Earth science. Maybe that’s why it is put under IS? Physical geography studies more of the features on Earth. For example: volcanoes, atmosphere, hydrosphere, rivers etc. If you all paid close attention, actually within all these features/topics, science is very important. It’s all about how everything works in a system. Once you understand one part, and link it up with other parts, there you have it! Everything linked up together which makes perfect sense. I feel that science is more on how things work as well as why things work. How they happen, and why they happen. That’s mainly the reason why I think physical geography’s under IS.

Okay, now for the summaries.