Crash Course Office Hours: Geography

Welcome to Crash Course Office Hours! Alizé Carrère and April Luginbuhl Mather answer your questions on human and physical geography, including how rocks form, how melting glaciers impact water resources, and what even is geography? Thank you to Flipgrid for sponsoring this series. Check them out here: https://info.flipgrid.com/ 00:00 Introduction 01:48 What is geography? 02:43 Place, space, and location 04:28 Site, situation and scale 09:00 How do different types of rock form? 11:35 Reducing the impacts of earthquakes and volcanoes 13:37 How is a meander formed? 16:34 Origin and formation of fjords 18:52 How can mountain ecosystems be restore from the impact of development and tourism? 22:14 Impact of melting Himalayan glaciers on water resources 26:23 What is posthumanism? 31:30 Who are significant geographers? 34:05 Different types of boundaries 37:36 What are the markers of development? 40:26 What is in a geography course? 45:30 Tips for studying geography 48:35 Why do we personally find geography interesting? 50:18 How to talk to students about the politics of maps 52:29 Displacement of people due to war, natural disasters, and changing coastlines 55:18 How do metamorphic rocks form? 56:15 Careers for people who study geography 59:35 Outro Crash Course Study Skills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhuwS5ZLwKY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNcAJRf3bE1IJU6nMfHj86W *** Watch our videos and review your learning with the Crash Course App! Download here for Apple Devices: https://apple.co/3d4eyZo Download here for Android Devices: https://bit.ly/2SrDulJ Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever: April Frazier, Dave Freeman, Hasan Jamal, DL Singfield, Lisa Owen, Jeremy Mysliwiec, Amelia Ryczek, Ken Davidian, Stephen Akuffo, Toni Miles, Steve Segreto, Michael M. Varughese, Kyle & Kath