Wednesday, November 3, 2010

WHAT IS GEOGRAPHY?

Geography comes from Greek word γεωγραφία - geographia. 
Basically, Geography is the study of the earth's surface and landscape includes people's responses to topography, climate, soil, and vegetation or else we say man-land relationship. In modern geography, we learn about human and earth complexities. Its not anymore about what it is but its about how we have changed and come to be. 
Geography is divided into 2main branches which are human geography and physical geography.
Human geography is a branch that focuses on the study of pattern and processes of human interaction, the study of human use. It includes most aspect of social science such as politic, economy, culture, development, etc. 
Whereas, Physical geography focuses on geography as an Earth's science. There are some sub fields of physical geography such as climatology, biogeography, pedology, hydrology, oceanography, glaciology,etc.

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