Branches Of Geography

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Urban- Investigates the location, structure, development, and growth of cities

Regional Geography

Regional geographers focus on areas as large as a continent or as small as an urban area.

Applied Geography

Geographic knowledge, skills, and techniques to solve problems in everyday society.

Population Geography

Population geographers are concerned with the distribution, migration, and growth of population in geographic areas.

Political Geography

Investigates all aspects of boundaries, country, state, and nation development, international organizations, diplomacy, internal country subdivisions, voting.

Agriculture Geography

The study of rural settlement, the distribution of agriculture and the geographic movement

Human- The study of the interaction with people and the earth

Geographic Education

Give teachers the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to help combat geographic illiteracy and to develop future generations of geographers.

Medical Geography

Medical geographers study the geographic distribution of disease illness, death and health care.

Recreation Tourism

The study of leisure-time activities and their impact on local environments.

Military Geography

The geographic distribution of military facilities and troops but also utilizes geographic tools to develop military solutions.

Transportation Technology

Research transportation networks and the use of those networks for moving people and goods.

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Physical- It is concerned with the natural features on or near the surface of the earth.

Remote Geography

Remote sensing utilizes satellites and sensors to examine features on or near the earth's surface from a distance.

Soils Geography

Soil geographers study the upper layer of the lithosphere, the soil, of the earth and its categorization and patterns of distribution.

Hazards Geography

Hazard geographers research extreme events known as hazards or disasters and explore the human interaction.

Globe Geography

Geographers researching global change explore the long term changes occurring to the planet earth based on human impacts on the environment.

Climate

Climate geographers investigate the distribution of long-term weather patterns and activities of the earth's atmosphere.

Cartography

Cartography focuses on improving and developing technologies in map-making.

Geo Morphology

Geomorphologists study the land forms of the planet, from their development to their disappearance through erosion and other processes.

Cryosphere Geography

Geographers look at the past distribution of ice on the planet and ice-cause features from glaciers and ice sheets.

Economic-The study of distribution of production and distribution of goods, the distribution of wealth, and the spatial structure of economic conditions.

Quantitative Methods

Uses mathematical techniques and models to test hypotheses

Geographic Information Systems

The branch of geography that develops databases of geographic information and systems to display geographic data

Environmental- Describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world

Mountain Geography

Look at the development of mountain systems and at the humans who live in higher altitudes

Bio geography

Biographers study the geographic distribution of plants and animals on the earth

Coastal and Marine Geography

There are geographers researching the coastal environments of the planet and how humans, coastal life, and coastal physical features interact.

Water Resources

Look at the distribution and use of water across the planet

Arid Geography

Geographers studying arid regions examine the deserts and dry surfaces of the planet.