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Geography for Secondary Schools
Student’s Book Form One
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................v
Preface .........................................................................................................................vi
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Chapter One: Introduction to Geography ...............................................................1
Concept of Geography .................................................................................................1
Branches of Geography ...............................................................................................2
Importance of studying Geography .............................................................................3
The relationship between Geography and other disciplines ........................................4
Revision exercise 1 ....................................................................................................6
Chapter Two: The planet Earth ................................................................................10
Origin of the Earth .......................................................................................................10
Position of the Earth in the Solar system .....................................................................13
Shape and size of the Earth ..........................................................................................15
Earth’s curved horizon .................................................................................................18
Revision exercise 2 ....................................................................................................19
Chapter Three: Movements of the Earth in the Solar system ...............................20
Rotation of the Earth ....................................................................................................20
Evidences of the earth’s rotation ..................................................................................21
The effects of rotation ..................................................................................................22
Revolution of the Earth ................................................................................................25
Parallels and meridians ................................................................................................33
Revision exercise 3 ....................................................................................................41
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