"The Advanced Placement Human Geography course reflects the content of a typical college level survey introductory
course in human geography. Through the five goals of the course, students will refine their analytical and problem
solving skills using creative and critical thinking to develop abilities to:
• Use and think about maps and spatial data.
• Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places.
• Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes.
• Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process.
• Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places."
Geosciences
地球科学，7大基础学科之一，是以地球系统（包括大气圈、水圈、岩石圈、生物圈和日地空间）的过程与变化及其相互作用为研究对象的基础学科，包括地质学、地理学，以及其它衍生学科。地球科学是一个大题目，纵横几万里，上下数亿年，几乎辐射到自然科学的其他各个领域。对地球的认识同世界各民族的起源、历史、文化乃至这个世界文明的进展，都是紧密联系在一起的。
