A Geography Field Trip

The Haw River Valley

Abstract

[First Paragraph] Field study is an essential, in many instances critical, facet of the geographical learning process. It is the way in which the student is brought into actual contact with geographic elements that have been identified, or can be studied, through library research, remote sensing, and statistical inquiry. Field study involves first-hand encounter with the complex linkage between human patterns -the activities and artifacts of people- and the physical environment - topography, drainage, weather/climate, and vegetation.