Answer: Geography studies the interaction between humans and the environment, which keeps changing; new problems, new tools and links with other subjects keep adding new branches, so its scope is widening.
- Geography is an interdisciplinary subject. It borrows from and contributes to subjects like economics, sociology, political science, geology, biology and climatology, giving rise to branches such as economic, social, political, population, urban, medical and environmental geography.
- New tools and techniques like remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and statistical and computer methods have opened new fields of study and applications.
- Geographers now contribute to planning and solving modern problems such as urbanisation, regional imbalance, disaster management, climate change and resource management.
- Geography is also useful in many careers (planning, tourism, defence, transport, agriculture), so its scope keeps increasing day by day.
