What is geography?

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What is geography?

Answer 1

Geography is the study of the Earth and everything in it.

Answer 2

"to describe or write about the Earth"..

Geography is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena.

Answer 3

Geography studies the location, extent, distribution, frequency and interaction of all significant elements of the human and physical environment on the Earth's surface, particularly its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity. The word geography derives from the Greek γη (ge) or γαια (gaia) ("Earth") and γραφειν (graphein) ("to inscribe"). Physical geography focuses on Earth science (and is sometimes called Earth System Science). This provides an understanding of the physical, meteorological and ecological patterns of the Earth. Human geography includes economic, political and cultural geography and focuses on the social science or the non-physical aspects of the world. It examines how human beings adapt themselves to the land and how they impact the physical world. Geographers not only study the human and natural features of the Earth but also its place in the Solar System and the Universe and how this affects the Earth features (e.g. climate, sea currents and tides).

Answer 4

Geography is the spatial discipline. Everything about geography revolves around where things are in the world and why they are there. While maps and place names are popularly thought of as "geography," professional geographers do not merely "study" maps, but attempt to understand the characteristics of things on the earth (people, economic activities, religion, climates, soils, disease, wildlife, etc.) and the reasons things are found where they are. If history is the temporal science, biology is the life science, and psychology is the mind science, then Geography is best described as the spatial science.

Answer 5

Geography is the study of the earth and its features, inhabitants, and phenomena. Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern geography is an all-encompassing discipline that foremost seeks to understand the world and all of its human and natural complexities-- not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be. As "the bridge between the human and physical sciences," geography is divided into two main branches - human geography and physical geography. (see sources below for more detailed information on geography).