What is geography for?

Geography is a subject that studies various natural and human phenomena and their relationships in the geographical environment of the earth's surface. Geography is a subject about the relationship between people living on the earth and their geographical environment. Generally speaking, the scope of geography includes various environments in which human beings live, namely, natural environment and human environment.

1. The natural environment includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and PEDOSPHERE, which leads to various branches of geography, such as climate phenomena, hydrological phenomena, water environment, natural resources, landforms, biological distribution and ecological phenomena on the earth and the distribution and types of soil.

In addition to these, physical geography phenomena also pay attention to the surface system phenomena caused by the interaction of style, hydrology, plants and soil, as well as various environmental phenomena and climate phenomena caused by human activities. Therefore, scholars call this subject physical geography.

2. In addition to physical geography, human beings are social, so it also includes the relationship between various human social phenomena and geographical environment, such as the distribution of agriculture, industry and settlements, with special emphasis on the relationship between human economic activities and the environment, but the content in this respect is relatively broad.

It covers many fields and is difficult to distinguish from others. Let's call it human geography (including economic geography) One of the most prominent ideas of human geography is to realize the harmonious unity between human beings and the environment, that is, sustainable development.

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The branches of geography are:

1. Physical geography: geomorphology, dynamic geomorphology, structural geomorphology, climate geomorphology, applied geomorphology, plant geography, animal geography, glaciology, geocryology, paleogeography, hydrogeology, soil geography, chemical geography, comprehensive physical geography, etc.

2. Human geography: economic geography, agricultural geography, industrial geography, commercial geography, traffic geography, tourism geography, population geography, ethnic geography, settlement geography, urban geography, social geography, cultural geography, historical geography, medical geography, political geography, military geography, cartography, toponymy, theoretical geography, regional geography, applied geography, disaster geography, etc.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-geography