Mücahit Coşkun

Mücahit Coşkun
  • Professor PhD.
  • Karabük University

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September 2000 - May 2004
Gazi University
Field of study
  • Physical Geography and Physical Geography Teaching

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Migration fluxes are historical as humanity grows beyond local and regional and runs across global boundaries, turning the world into a worldwide village humans have never presumed and aspired to. It uses the gateway of Europe (Turkey) as a reference and pivot study to assess the most trending issue in the history of human civilisation. With more e...
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Bu çalışma, Irak’ın Enbar ve Kerbela vilayetleri arasında yer alan Razzaza Gölü’nün 1984-2024 yılları arasındaki alansal değişimlerini uzaktan algılama ve Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri (CBS) teknikleriyle incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Irak’ın ikinci büyük gölü olan Razzaza, Fırat Nehri'nden beslenen, 1810 km² alana ve 26 milyar m³ su depolama kapasitesine...
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İzmir Türkiye’nin önemli sanayi ve yerleşim alanlarından biri olmasının yanı sıra, sahip olduğu kıyı ekosistemleri ile de biyoçeşitlilik açısından zengindir. Araştırma, İzmir Körfezi’nde ekosistem bütünlüğünü tehdit eden kirliliği ve kıyı değişimlerini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Sahaya ait analizler Google Earth Engine işlem sistemi üzerinden g...
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Flood events often occur in the Black Sea coastal belt. Floods can occur depending on the natural characteristics of river basins, as well as be triggered by human factors. The natural flood generating potential of the river basins where flood events are experienced can be determined by morphometric analyses. Morphometric analysis helps to explain...
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The importance of climate change policies, which are based on climate change in the political and academic fields and include political institutions and civil society initiatives, has been increasing in recent years. The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between international publications in the field of geography on climate change...
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The study area is Karabük province, and the research topic is to examine the influence of soil-related variables on soil organic carbon in Karabük province. The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between digital soil mapping and the correlation analysis of soil variables that affect the carbon stock stored by the soil. In the study,...
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Yeryüzünde birçok canlının yaşam yeri olan sulak alanlar çeşitli nedenlerle alansal değişime uğramaktadır. Ülkemizde Konya drenaj havzasındaki üçüncü büyük tatlı su kütlesi olan Suğla Gölü XIX. yüzyıldan itibaren kurutulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu nedenle göl bugüne kadar alansal olarak çeşitli değişikliklere uğramıştır. Bu çalışmada yerel ölçekte öneml...
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The present study aims to use dendrochronological methods to reconstruct the precipitation history of Elmacık Mountain of Northwest Türkiye and itsimmediate surroundings. This research is the first dendroclimatological study in Türkiye regarding total annual precipitation reconstruction in the currentliterature. The study created three Scotch pine...
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EVALUATION OF THE LITHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND LAND USE RELATIONSHIP OF THE AREA BETWEEN OTLUKBELİ AND KESİS MOUNTAINS BY GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE AND XRF ANALYSIS Lithology is a scientific discipline that investigates the origin, composition, structure, and history of rocks. Since the beginning of human history, humans have been in interaction with rock...
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Küresel iklimde meydana gelen değişim ve salınımlar, yaşanılan doğa olaylarının şiddetini artırmaktadır. Kısa sürede gerçekleşen şiddetli yağışlar ya da sıcak hava dalgaları sel, taşkın, heyelan, kuraklık ve orman yangınları gibi afetlerle sonuçlanmaktadır. Karadeniz Bölgesi'nin Doğu Karadeniz Bölümü ise sahip olduğu jeomorfolojik ve klimatolojik ö...
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Son yıllarda etkisini giderek artıran küresel iklim değişikliği, artık insanlığın önlem alması ve uyum çabalarını artırması gereken bir problem haline gelmiştir. Daha uzun süre maruz kalınan sıcak hava dalgaları, sıcak hava dalgaları ile birlikte sıklığı giderek artan orman yangınları, kuraklık, şiddetli yağışlar, sel ve heyelan olayları iklimsel p...
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The effectiveness of fire towers in combating forest fires relies on their appropriate observation angles, enabling a swift and efficient response to fire incidents. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of 49 fire towers located within the Antalya Forestry Regional Directorate, situated in the Mediterranean basin—a region prone...
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Although the Black Sea Region is humid, there have been many forest fires recently. The province of Bartın, located in this region, has forests rich in biodiversity. In addition, the province also includes the Western Küre Mountains, an extension of the Küre Mountains National Park, which is one of the 9 hot spots of our country. Considering these...
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Libya, especially with the lack of renewable water sources has a great strain on its water needs and supply, relying largely on groundwater to satisfy its demand. The Great Man- Made River (GMMR) project was developed in order to transport water from subsurface aquifers from the Sahara Desert to the northern parts of Libya, where water demand is hi...
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Understanding the long-term variations of extreme temperature events is important for detecting and understanding the characteristics of climate change. However, it is not clear to what degree urbanization impacts climate change. In the study, station pairs were created by selecting 42 stations that recorded data between 1970-2018 to reflect the cl...
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Forest fires caused by different environmental and human factors are responsible for the extensive destruction of natural and economic resources. Modern machine learning techniques have become popular in developing very accurate and precise susceptibility maps of various natural disasters to help reduce the occurrence of such calamities. )e present...
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Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is a plant that has found the opportunity to grow in the Black Sea Coastal Region of Turkey due to the favorable geographical conditions such as topography, climate, and soil. Hazelnut, which can be produced economically up to 750 meters in this region, prefers deep soils rich in the organic matter regarding soil requ...
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Sanayi faaliyetlerinin ve nüfus miktarının fazla olduğu yerleşim alanlarında hava kalitesinin sürekli kontrolü yaşamsal bir zorunluluktur. Bu öneme bağlı olarak araştırmanın alan kapsamını Kocaeli ili, konu kapsamını ise sahadaki kirleticilerin dağılımı oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın amacı çeşitli kaynaklardan atmosfere bırakılan kirleticilerin alan...
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Zeytinin yetiştiriciliğine dair ilk kalıntılara, günümüzden yaklaşık 6500 yıl önce Akdeniz havzasının doğusundaki Levant bölgesinde rastlanmıştır. Zeytin (Olea europaea L.), antik çağlarda özellikle yağından; yemek, aydınlatma, sağlık gibi konularda faydalanılmakta ve birçok inanç için kutsal, barışın sembolü bir bitki olarak bilinmektedir. Türkiye...
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Kuraklık, başta tarım olmak üzere insan faaliyetlerine etki eden ve ciddi maliyetlere yol açan önemli doğal afetlerdendir. Bu nedenle kuraklığın tespit edilmesi ve eğiliminin ortaya çıkarılması gelecekte yapılacak planlamalara ve alınacak kararlara envanter sağlamaktadır. Bu çalışmada ülkemizin iki önemli tarım sahası olan Çukurova ve Konya Ovası'n...
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Dünya mutfağının vazgeçilmez bir ürünü olan sarımsak, gıda ve sağlık endüstrisinin önemli doğal bitkilerindendir.Türkiye de bu doğal bitkinin anavatanlarından biri olduğundan, çok eski zamanlardan bu yana Anadolu’da sarımsaktarımı yapılmaktadır. Ülkemizin çeşitli bölgelerinde yapılan sarımsak tarımının birçok kültür çeşidi vardır. Bunlardanbiri de...
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This study, it is aimed to analyze the relations between the daily streamflow of Büyük Melen Stream (Düzce) and daily total precipitation and daily precipitation intensity. Considering the importance of Istanbul in meeting the drinking water needs and the potential to create a flood disaster as in 2019, it was found useful to analyze the daily chan...
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It is necessary to investigate natural disasters as a threat to human life and take the necessary measures with the information obtained. In this study, the research area was selected as the Karabük-Gökçebey part of the Filyos stream Basin, one of the important streams of the Western Black Sea. The study aims to identify flood risk areas by Multi-C...
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Dünyada oldukça yaygın olarak bulunan jips kayacı kolay ulaşılabilirliğinin yanı sıra kullanım alanının geniş olması çalışma açısından önem teşkil etmektedir. Araştırmanın amacını jips kayacının ekolojisi ve kullanım alanları oluşturmaktadır. Alanyazın incelemesi yapıldığında bu alana dair çalışmaların az sayıda olduğu görülmektedir. Bu nedenle haz...
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Yaşanılan mekânda meydana gelen birçok olay coğrafyanın izlerini taşır. Bu anlamda İbn-i Haldun’un “Coğrafya kaderdir” sözü bir bakış açısı sunar. Araştırmada 2013-2021 yıllarında yapılmış olan KPSS (Kamu Personeli Seçme Sınavı) ÖABT (Öğretmenlik Alan Bilgisi Testi)’deki Fen Bilgisi, Sınıf ve Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretmenliği Alan Bilgisi Testinde yer a...
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In the study, the morphometric parameters of Ermenek River Basin (ERB) and Gökçay Basin (GB) have been analyzed, as comparatively aim to contribute to the prioritization of the watersheds in terms of natural resource management. In the study, 23 parameters, including linear, areal, and relief morphometries were calculated. The data infrastructure o...
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Climate change is being felt significantly today. Change is due to the nature of the climate, which is a dynamic system. The axis obliquity of the Earth, its orbital movements, solar activity, and the use of fossil fuels are shown as the leading causes of climate change. It is known that climate changes are not unique to the present day, but many c...
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Numerous searches conducted across the globe on Climatic Change initiatives reveal that current human discharges of atmospheric glasshouse gases are of the utmost in the record. Recent weather conditions have had extensive effects on man and ecological communities. Diverse varieties of living things have been impacted negatively by the suddenchange...
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Aerosoller doğal süreçler ya da insan faaliyetleri sonucunda atmosfere karışmakta ve iklim şartlarından insan sağlığına kadar birçok faktör üzerinde etkili olmaktadır. Bu çalışmada 1 Ocak 2019 ve 19 Nisan 2021 tarihleri arasında aerosol optik derinlik görüntüsü alınabilen toplam 292 günlük Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer uncertainty v...
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YENİCE HOT SPOT: ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY (KARABUK-WEST BLACKSEA-TURKEY) One of the most important natural resources of the western Black Sea region is forests. As a result of the pressure of people on Natural Resources, the areas that protect their natural habitat are shrinking day by day. Forests, which cannot be limited to tree and shrub comm...
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VEGETATION AND HYDROGRAPHY OF DEVREK RIVER BASIN (WEST BLACK SEA-TURKEY) The parent material, topography, soil, climate, and biotic factors constitute the ecology of the environment as a whole. The characteristics of each part of the geographical environment impact the result, and every deterioration or improvement in the whole feature changes the...
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Turkey, a high and rugged country, has many active and paleo landslide sites. Especially in the steepness around fault zones, landslides are frequently encountered. By examining the growth changes in the annual rings of trees here, both the dating of landslides and the frequency of landslide movements can be determined. In this study, it was aimed...
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The academic community has been contentious in the discourse regarding climate change. This study aims to conduct an in-depth investigation and assessment of the past years' articles with a crystal focus on how often climate change is mentioned in our sampled articles. The statistical data originated from Taylor & Francis's publications focused and...
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Araştırmada haritalandırma için ArcGIS 10.4 programı, topoğrafya ve sınır tabakasının atmosferik sirkülasyona etkisinin gösterilmesi için ANSYS Fluent programı kullanılmıştır. Analizler için arazi yapısı Google Earth programından alınmış, atmosfer kararlılık kriterlerinin tespitinde ve yeni kararlılık yaklaşımında Pasquill-Gifford kararlılık kriter...
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The research area is the Susurluk Stream Basin, and the research topic is the trend analysis of average temperature and total precipitation parameters in 8 meteorological stations with more than 30 years of observations (1979-2019) located in the basin. The aim of the study is to analyze the annual and seasonal trends of these data by considering m...
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In this study, it is aimed to determine the levels by examining the exam questions prepared for Geography ÖABT (Teaching Field Knowledge Test) in KPSS according to the revised Bloom taxonomy. The revised taxonomy consists of knowledge and cognitive process dimensions. In the dimension of information; factual, conceptual, operational, metacognitive...
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The current research evaluated waste management education-related articles – in which a total of 172 articles identified. At the same time, 70 articles were mainly connected to the research topic and considered high rated journals as a database for the study. Consequently, qualitative content analyses of the articles were done manually and by analy...
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Increasing energy consumption has made air pollution a critical problem in residential areas, especially in cities. The expansion of natural gas use in our country and the orientation towards quality coal has not eliminated the growth of the problem, although it has partially hindered it. Topographic and climatic factors have played a significant r...
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Introduction The aims of the research are; to determine the characteristics of caves of Karabük province; to reveal their tourism potential; to determine whether the cave environment carries a value in terms of nature tourism by taking into consideration the nature sports and shape characteristics (stalagmite, column, siphon and curtain) of the cav...
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Travertine deposit that are formed the accumulation of calcium carbonate with the evaporation of calcium bicarbonate water are found as large areas in Antalya, Pamukkale (Hierapolis), Denizli, hot spring area of Sivas province and many parts of Turkey. One of the travertine areas also occur in the Göksu stream basin which is the main tributaries of...
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Yeryuvarının dış yüzeyini oluşturan soğumuş kat yerkabuğu olarak bilinmektedir. Bu kat farklı özellikteki kaya kütlelerinden oluşmaktadır. Kayaçları ise mineraller meydana getirmektedir. Birbirinden farklı kristal, fiziksel, kimyasal ve optik özelliklere sahip mineraller bir araya gelerek ya da tek başına bir mineral kayaca karakter katmaktadır. Ta...
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Livestock is an important source of meat and milk with its significant share in the world's total calories and protein consumption. There has been a substantial increase in the consumption of livestock products in the last decades at a global level. Buffalo have a large and growing share of the global livestock sector. However, buffalo are no longe...
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In Taurus Mountains, orobiome and/or mountain environment is defined as the area covered by upper part of forest or oro-Mediterranean forest starting 1200m elevation and above the native timberline in terms of ecological conditions. Turkey, which is found in the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, contains oro-forests and subalpine pasture areas. Tauru...
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Taurus Mountain range which is the southern branch of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt of Anatolia or Asia Minor has been shaped a great extent by the tectonic movements. Karstification processes have initially started on the Mesozoic limestone that formed calcareous mud accumulated in the Tethys basin. On the other hand, firstly running waters o...
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Buffalo is considered as a triple purpose animal that provides milk, meat and draught power to mankind. The ideal environmental conditions for buffalo are floodplains with plenty of grasses and water supply. However, buffalo are also raised in many different climatic conditions, other that of their origin, in various parts of the world with the hel...
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The purpose of this study was to analyze teachers' perspectives on the usage of smart boards and Tablet PCs in the Fatih Project using some variables (gender, branches, school types, educational status etc). The measurement scale of the study was developed and applied with the high school teachers in Düzce. Quantitative research methods were used i...
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FROM BLACK SEA COASTAL TO INLAND: CLIMATIC PARAMETERS OF KASTAMONU SURROUNDINGS Natural elements of earth have a profound effect on human activities. Climate is found determining and decisive factor in shaping and formation of the earth‟s landscape, vegetation cover, soil profile and human activities. The selected study area Kastamonu is a versati...
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Karabük-Safranbolu basin is located in the Western Black Sea Region in the northwest of Turkey. The basin lies within 100 km from the coastline and is an important area, as it hosts Euro-Siberian and Mediterranean plants species. The focus of the study is maquis formation. Occupying a large place on the earth, Maquis communities are commonly distri...
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate students' perspectives according to various variables about use of smart boards and tablet computers in class rooms, academic performance tasks, distribution of course books, and changes made in exam grading regulation at high schools which came into effect as of academic year 2013-2014 under Faith Project....
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate teachers' viewpoints about the changes made in the regulation of passing lesson at schools, which became active in 2013 to 2014 academic year. The pass grade applied depends on this regulation, common exams, shortening of the absenteeism durations, and assigning students with performance tasks according to s...
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Article History It is seen that the largest factor to this is unexpected freeze and change of rainfall. It is reasoned that possible temperature increase in future and the effect of drought in Turkey and in Düzce that can effect agriculture of hazelhazelnut. Because, hazelhazelnut is selective and sensitive plant in terms of climate.
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Turkey is an area where climate changes immediately, vegetation, or land gets different in a short distance. Geological and lithological features show diversity. Also, our country's territorial existence and diversity also bring about different land use conditions. Therefore, land capability also differs from each other. Nevertheless, the classific...
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The aim of this study is to reveal social scientist perception of undergraduate geography students. In the research scanning model was used. The study group consisted of 65 students studying geography. Semi-constructed interview form was used as data collection tool. Findings of the study show that geography students mostly have positive perception...
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Agriculture is highly important economical activity. It has a significant role in Turkish economy. However, agriculture can be made more profitable for both national economy and producers through modern agricultural methods and alternative agricultural products. This study deals with characteristics and growing conditions of kiwi, an alternative ag...
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Red Mediterranean soil (Alfisol) occurs on the limestone and colluvial deposits containing calcareous material and limestone particles on the Safranbolu plateau. The red Mediterranean soil is covered by the fine calcareous materials derived from the karstic land in some part of this area. Second red Mediterranean soil formed on the old red Mediterr...
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Karabük-Safranbolu basin is located in the western part of Black Sea geographical region. It is typical intermontane basin. The development of landforms of this area is related to the lateral and vertical tectonic movements that occurred after alpine orogeny and fluvial erosion. Indeed, faulting movement in the early Neogene contributed the formati...
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Atmosphere; is one of the four globes (Atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lythosphere) and is consisted of several gases. These are permanent and of constant quantity gases (nitrogene 78,9%, 20,95 oxygen and Nobel gases), permanent and unstable gases (carbon dioxide 0,03%, water vapour %0,25-%3) and temporal gases. Those permanent and stable gases...
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The purpose of this research is to examine the attitudes of primary students that study at gifted students' school (BĐLSEM). A total of 156 primary school students participated in the research in Ankara BĐLSEM schools in 2010-2011 academic year. As data gathering tool "Environment Attitude Scale" developed by Atasoy (2005) was used in the study in...
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This study was carried out to put forth gifted students' perspectives towards "earthquake" concept. A total of 156 primary school students participated in the research in Ankara BLSEM schools in 2010-2011 academic year. The data of the research was gathered by completing "The earthquake means….. ", or I consider earthquake as ……." statement. In the...
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The purpose of this research is to investigate the relations the achievement motive of secondary school students and the relations between the achievement motive and "gender", "class level", "parent education level" and "family income level" with variables. Total 151 students studying in high schools in the city center of Karabük in the academic ye...
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In this research, secondary education students' views towards the role of geography lessons in building environmental conscious were examined. A total of 394 secondary school students participated in the reasearch in the 2010-2011academic year in the province of Karabük (Turkey). In this research Survey model was used and a questionnaire developed...
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This research was carried out to determine the metaphors of high school students towards "climate" concept according to gender variable. A total of 108 students in two high schools in Karabük City participated in the research in 2009 -2010 academic years. The data of the research were gathered from the students' completing the expressions: "climate...
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This research was carried out to put forward high school students' metaphors towards "environment" concept. The study group of the research consisted of 136 students that attend Prof. Dr. Mümtaz Turhan Social Sciences High School in stanbul Turkey in the second term of 2009/2010 academic year. The data of the research were gathered by completing "E...
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The purpose of this research is to define and explain how 7th grade students' in Turkey perceive "earthquake" concept using phenomenographic research methods. The research group of the study is comprised of 553 7th grade students in four cities (Ankara, Adana, Antalya and Karabük) in Turkey. The data of the research was gathered by students' comple...
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Reflective Thinking in Geography Education has recently been taken into account. This study will be a sample for the following researches. The purpose of the study is to examine the reflective thinking skills of the students according to the expressions over the evaluation notes that they took after the Project Based Learning Process in Geography L...
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This research has been conducted to reveal the mental images of high school students about “climate” concept. The research datum were obtained by students’ completing the sentence “Climate is like ......because........”. Qualitative Research Method’s Content Analysis Technique was used to analyze and interpret the collected datum. According to the...
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One of the most important problems in the world is the natural dangers which are stemmed from natural events that origined from earth and atmosphere. Despite the tecnological improvements, in most part of the world there are stil loss of life and loss of property is experienced exceedingly. It shows that more scientific researches related with natu...

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