Branches of geography
Environmental geography: the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world
Coastal and Marine Geography
The coastal environments of the planet and how humans, coastal life, and coastal physical features interact.
Arid Regions Geography
They examine the deserts and dry surfaces of the planet. They also explore how humans, animals, and plants make their home in dry or arid regions
Mountain Geography
Development of mountain systems and at the humans who live in higher altitudes and their adaptations.
Global Change
Explore the long term changes occurring to the planet earth based on human impacts on the environment.
Climate Geography
Distribution of long-term weather patterns and activities of the earth's atmosphere.
Human Geography: interaction with the earth and their organization of spaces on the earth's surface.
Hazards Geography
Extreme events known as hazards or disasters and explore the human interaction to them.
Political Geography
All aspects of boundaries, country, state, and nation development, diplomacy, voting, and more.
Geographic Information Systems
Develops databases of geographic information and systems to display geographic data in a map-like format.
Cartography
Improving and developing technologies in map-making
Remote Sensing
Using satellites and sensors to examine features on or near the earth's surface from a distance.
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Water Resources Management
Distribution of water across the planet within the hydrologic cycle and of human-developed systems for water storage, distribution, and use.
Geographic education
Give teachers the knowledge they need to help combat geographic illiteracy and to develop future generations of geographers.
Quantitative Methods
Mathematical techniques and models to test hypotheses.
Military Geography
Distribution of military facilities and troops, and also geographic tools to develop military solutions.
Medical Geography
Distribution of disease, illness, death and health care.
Geography of Religions
Distribution of religious groups, their cultures, and built environments.
Physical Geography: concerned with the natural features on or near the surface of the earth.
Population geography
Distribution, migration, and growth of population in geographic areas.
Biogeography
Study of the geographic distribution of plants and animals on the earth.
Soils Geography
Study of the upper layer of the lithosphere, the soil, of the earth and its categorization and patterns of distribution
Cryosphere Geography
Study of ice of the earth, especially glaciers and ice sheets.
Geomorphology
Study of land forms of the planet, from their development to their disappearance through erosion and other processes.
Urban Geography: investigates the location, structure, development, and growth of cities, from tiny villages to huge megalopolises.
Regional Geography
Study of areas as large as a continent or as small as an urban area.
Agricultural and Rural Geography
study of rural settlement, the distribution of agriculture and the geographic movement and access to agricultural products.
Economic Geography: the distribution of production and distribution of goods, the distribution of wealth, and the spatial structure of economic conditions.
Transportation geography
Research transportation networks and the use of those networks for moving people and goods.
Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Geography
Study of leisure-time activities and their impact on local environments
Applied Geography
Using geographic knowledge, skills, and techniques to solve problems in everyday society.
