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Geography
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What
is Geography?
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| Geography
is the study of place and space. Geographers
are interested in examining where
things are located on the earth, why
they are located where they are and
how places differ. Geographers are
also fundamentally interested in the
interactions between people and the
spaces they occupy. There are two
primary branches of geography: human
and physical geography. Human geographers
examine the spatial aspects of human
existence: how people use their space,
how they modify space, how human activities
are distributed accross space. Human
geographers work in the fields of
urban and regional planning, transportation,
marketing, real estate, tourism and
international business. |
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geographers study patterns and distrubtions
of the physical processes of the earth,
such as climate, land forms, vegetation,
soils, and water. Physical geographers
work in areas of climatology (weather
forcasting), land and water resource
management. Many human and physical
geographers have skills in cartography
and Geographic Information Systems
(GIS). |
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Geographers also study the linkages
between human activity and natural
systems. According to the American
Association of Geographers (AAG), "geographers
were, in fact, among the first
scientists to sound the alarm
that human-induced changes to
the environment were beginning
to threaten the balance of life
itself." Geographers study
the impact of issues such as
global warming, desertification,
deforestation, loss of biodiversity,
groundwater pollution, and flooding.
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