Geography Peer Review

 Geography, the study of the varied environments, places, and spaces of Earth’s surface and their interactions. It seeks to answer the questions of why things are as they're, where they're. the fashionable academic discipline of geography is rooted in ancient practice, concerned with the characteristics of places, specifically their natural environments and peoples, further because the relations between the 2. Its separate identity was first formulated and named some 2,000 years ago by the Greeks, whose geo and graphein were combined to mean “earth writing” or “earth description.” However, what's now understood as geography was elaborated before then, within the Arab world et al.. Ptolemy, author of 1 of the discipline’s first books, Guide to Geography (2nd century CE), defined geography as “a representation in pictures of the entire known world along with the phenomena which are contained therein.” This expresses what many still consider geography’s essence—a description of the globe using maps (and now also pictures, as within the reasonably “popular geographies” exemplified by National Geographic Magazine)—but, as more was learned about the globe, less might be mapped, and words were added to the images.   To most of the people, geography means knowing where places are and what they're like. Discussion of an area’s geography usually refers to its topography—its relief and drainage patterns and predominant vegetation, together with climate and weather patterns—together with human responses thereto environment, as in agricultural, industrial, and other land uses and in settlement and urbanization patterns.

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