Q. What is geography?
Ans. Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
Q. Who is a geographer?
Ans. Geographer is a person who studies the relationship between learned behavior of human beings, including language and religion, and the places humans live.
Q. What is job of a geographer?
Ans. A geographer has to a) explore the physical properties of Earth’s surface, b) explore the human societies spread across the Earth, c) examine how human culture interacts with the natural environment, and d) examine the way that locations and places can have an impact on people.
Q. What are the specialities branches of geography?
Ans. Geography is divided into a) physical geography, b) human geography, c) geographic techniques, and d) regional geography.
Q. Define physical geography?
Ans. Physical geography is study of the natural features and processes of the Earth.
Q. Define human geography?
Ans. Human geography is the study of the way human communities and systems interact with their environment.
Q. Define geographic techniques?
Ans. Geographic techniques are ways in which geographic processes can be analyzed and represented using different methods and technologies.
Q. Define regional geography?
Ans. Regional geography is branch of geography devoted to the study of characteristics of a specific region.
Q. What is studied under physical geography?
Ans. Earth’s seasons, climate, atmosphere, soil, streams, landforms, and oceans etc. are studied under physical geography.
Q. What are various branches of physical geography?
Ans. Some disciplines within physical geography include geomorphology, glaciology, pedology, hydrology, climatology, biogeography, and oceanography.
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