 A
woman was sitting on the train reading the newspaper. A headline
read, "12 Brazilian Soldiers Killed." The woman shook her head at
the sad news, turned to the stranger sitting next to her, and asked,
"How many is a Brazilian?"
If you laughed, you might be a geographer in the making so keep
reading…
Geography is the science of place and space. Geographers ask
where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are
located where they are, how places differ from one another, and how
people interact with the environment.
There are two main
branches of geography:
Human Geography
Human geography is concerned
with the spatial aspects of human existence - how people and their
activities are distributed in space, how they use and perceive
space, and how they create and sustain the places that make up the
earth's surface. Human geographers work in the fields of urban and
regional planning, transportation, marketing, real estate, tourism,
and international business.
Physical
Geography
Physical geographers study patterns of
climates, landforms, vegetation, soils, and water. They forecast the
weather, manage land and water resources, and analyze and plan for
forests, rangelands, and wetlands. Many human and physical
geographers have skills in cartography and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS).
Geographers also study the linkages between human activity and
natural systems. 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.
They are active in the study of global warming, desertification,
deforestation, loss of biodiversity, groundwater pollution, and
flooding.
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