particular area or region. Within the region it investigates the distribution and

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2.5 Say whether the following statements are true or false. Use the following: that's 
right; nothing of the kind; I don't agree; I think that's exactly so; that's true; that's 
not right. 
 
1. Topical geography may be focused on physical or human phenomena. 
2. One of the geographic branches is climatology. 
3. The speciality which treat the form, size and movements of the earth is called 
urban geography. 
4. Political geography emphasizes the pattern of the earth's political sovereignties. 
5. Subdivisions on the basis of similarities of natural conditions provide culture 
regions. 
2.6 Find the right definition for the following concepts 
a. Political geography 
Отрасль географии, изучающая природные явления и 
объекты земной поверхности. 
b. Economic geography Отрасль 
географии, 
изучающая 
особенности, 
объекты и феномены земной поверхности, которые 
непосредственно связаны с человеком и его 
деятельностью. 
c. Urban geography 
Отрасль 
географии, 
изучающая 
границы, 
административное деление и владения государств. 
d. Physical geography 
Наука, изучающая распределение живых организмов 
по земному шару и причины его изменения. 
e. Human geography 
f. Biogeography 
Отрасль географии, изучающая закономерности 
территориального 
размещения 
производства, 
экономической структуры хозяйства стран и 
регионов 
Учение 
о 
месте, 
эволюции, 
структуре 
и 
классификации городских поселений и городов. 
2.7 Translate into English 
География - наука, предметом изучения которой является описание форм и 
физических особенностей земли, ее природных и политических градаций, а 
также климата, общественного производства, населения и т.д. разных стран. 

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2.8 Answer the following questions 
What does topical (regional) geography investigate? 
What is called physical geography? 
What aspects of physical geography are studied separately? 
What can you say about mathematical geography? 
What does human (economic, political, urban) geography deal with? 
How is regional geography subdivided? 
2.9 Retell the text “Geography” 
2.10 Text for written translation 
One of the central problems in human geography is to explain the distribution 
and characteristics of people – this is the province of population geography. 
Population geography examines particularly the distribution of population in relation 
to its various characteristics, such as growth, number, density, age, sex, fertility, 
mortality, natural increase, and occupations, divisions into rural and urban, ethnic, 
linguistic, or religious groupings; and migrations. Some geographic studies are 
concerned mainly with spatial distribution, spatial mobility, or spatial diversity in 
relationship to environment or resources, all of which are often depicted on maps. 
Other studies are more concerned with fertility, mortality, population growth, and 
forecasting through the use of demographic models.
Interest in population geography in the second half of the 20 th century has been 
heightened by the sharp and growing contrast between economically developed 
countries (which have long experienced a demographic transition from high to low 
birth and death rates and thus to low rates of population increase) and the less – 
developed countries (in which death rates have declined dramatically but birth rates 
have remained high, resulting in rapid population growth that has posed extremely 
difficult problems). The emphasis in population geography has shifted to effect how 
much less people are bound to the land as a result of transformation in agriculture, 
increased industrialization, improved transportation and trade, changes in sources and 
forms of energy, urbanization and the expansion of service industries. 

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