Good news:
There are PLENTY of reasons to study geography, and you don't even need to be a good memorizer to be a good geographer! (We still believe in you)
This website will give you the tools to tell your parents what geography actually means and why we should study it!
Generally speaking,
geography is the study of
across the world, from place to place and space to space.
Let's think of geography as a spider with hundreds of legs...
Each of her legs represents something a geographer can study.
A geographer can study the reasons for poor health in certain parts of Tokyo....
Or research the melting glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland... Or search for the best places for national parks in Tazmania. |
A geographer can ALSO study the ways New Yorkers feel about Central Park...
Or how the Amazon rainforest has been changing from year to year... Or even the laws we can create to help people without homes in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
Geography means SO many things...
but at the center of the spider are the ideas of
Space & Place
(learn more about space and place here)
and the goal to answer some of the
like...
What will the future of our planet look like?
How can we adapt to environmental changes?
What brings humanity together?
Now let's take a look at how the field of geography came to be and some of the fields geographers work in!