What is geography

Question 0

Why is geography an important subject?

Answer 0

Geography is an important subject because it helps us understand our world, make sense of news events and what is going on around us.

Question 1

What is geography?

Answer 1

Geography is the study of the earth’s natural features. It is also about people and places and how they affect each other.

Question 2

What are the 3 main parts of geography?

Answer 2

Physical, human and environmental.

Question 3

What is physical geography?

Answer 3

It is the study of the earth’s natural features (land, sea and atmosphere)

Question 4

Give examples of earth’s natural features

Answer 4

The atmosphere, weather and climate.
Rivers, mountains, lakes, forests, deserts…
Hazards like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis..

Question 5

What is human geography?

Answer 5

It is the study of where and how people live.

Question 6

Give examples of human geography

Answer 6

Population geography, settlement geography, communications, economic geography and quality of life.

Question 7

What is population geography?

Answer 7

Population geography studies:

• distribution (where people are living and why)
• migration (why people move from one area to another).

Question 8

What is settlement geography?

Answer 8

Settlement geography is where people live (villages, cities…)

Question 9

What is ‘communications’?

Answer 9

Communications describe:
- the methods of transport by which people move about (to work, to school etc)

• the movements of goods (trade) and information (telephone, tv)

Question 10

What is economic geography?

Answer 10

Economic geography looks at how people try to earn a living. It’s about industry, jobs and wealth.

Question 11

Human geography also studies Quality Of Life. What does that mean?

Answer 11

Quality of life means how happy or content people are, how much they like living in a certain area, how much money they earn.

Question 12

What does “environment” mean?

Answer 12

1. The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives .”survival in an often hostile environment”
2. the natural world especially as affected by human activity. “the impact of pesticides on the environment”

Question 13

What is environmental geography?

Answer 13

Combination of the physical and the human geography. It is the study of the surroundings in which people, plants and animals live.