Geography as a Discipline Test - 3

Plateaus provide forests and minerals.

Physical geography deals with the study of soils.

The study of the oceans, seas, lakes, and associated features with the water realm is hydrosphere.

Population and Settlement Geography (Rural and Urban): It studies population growth, distribution, density, sex ratio, migration and occupational structure etc. Settlement geography studies the characteristics of rural and urban settlements.

"Geography is concerned with the description and explanation of the areal differentiation of the earth’s surface." stated by Richard Hartshorne

The study of its composition, structure, elements, and controls of weather and climate; temperature, pressure, winds, precipitation, climatic types, etc. is known as the atmosphere.

Thus, the concern of geography is to find out the causal relationship between any two phenomena or between more than one phenomenon. For example, cropping patterns differ from region to region but this variation in cropping pattern, as a phenomenon, is related to variations in soils, climates, demands in the market,  capacity of the farmer to invest, and technological inputs available for us. 

 The systematic geography approach is the same as that of general geography. This approach was introduced by Alexander Von Humboldt, a German geographer (1769-1859) while the regional geography approach was developed by another German geographer and a contemporary of Humboldt, Karl Ritter (1779-1859).

The traditional physical geography is linked with geology, meteorology, hydrology, and pedology, and thus, geomorphology, climatology, oceanography, and soil geography respectively have very close links with the natural sciences as these derive their data from these sciences.