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Secondary Geography (11-18 age range)

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Secondary Geography (11-18 age range) at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: physical science, environment
University website: www.cardiffmet.ac.uk
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Geography
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be.
Age
Old age is courteous—no one more:
For time after time he knocks at the door,
But nobody says, "Walk in, sir, pray!"
Yet turns he not from the door away,
But lifts the latch, and enters with speed,
And then they cry, "A cool one, indeed."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Old Age.
Age
He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 5.
Geography
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent.
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