About Geography
In my perspective, Geography is about the studying of the planet Earth, its features and its inhabitants. The word itself comes from the Greek words gê ("Earth") and graphein ("to write, draw"). Literally, the word means "to write and draw about the Earth".
Geography is divided into two main parts called physical geography and human geography. Physical geography studies the natural environment and human geography studies the human environment. The human environmental studies would include things such as the population in a country, how a country's economy is doing, and more. Geographers need to know a lot about maps because maps. Geographers use maps a lot, and often make them. Making maps is called cartography, and similarly, people who make maps are cartographers. |