Simply put, geography is the study of the Earth and its people. There are two basic perspectives: cultural and ecological. The physical environment has been shaped by the actions of the world’s people. Basic questions geographers ask and answer are:
- Where?
- What’s there?
- How are places alike and different?
- How do places interact?
- WHY THERE?
Geography is an integrative discipline pulling in concepts and content from a variety of science and social science disciplines. The map shows the distribution of the world’s population by country. Why do people live where they do?