How did ancient people study the Earth? What is the method of geographic description?

| March 2, 2021 | education

1. How did ancient people study the Earth? 2. What is the method of geographic description? 3. What role does the cartographic method play in our time? 4. What does the aerospace method give to modern geography?

1. Ancient scientists collected facts, and then they systematized and established patterns.
2. Geographical description consists in answering the questions:  where is it located? What does it look like? What features does it have?
3. The cartographic method of research is the use of maps for scientific and practical knowledge of the objects and phenomena depicted on them.
4. The aerospace method allows not only to draw up very accurate maps, but also to find new deposits of minerals, to monitor the weather, human activities, pollution of the earth’s surface, to receive information about other planets of the solar system, about the Galaxy, the Universe.



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