Answer: Geography is the study of the earth as the home of humans; it is an integrating, interdisciplinary, spatial science of the interaction between humans and their environment.
- Study of space (spatial science): it studies the distribution of physical and human phenomena over the earth's surface and asks where, why and how they are found there.
- Human–environment interaction: it studies how nature influences humans and how humans modify the environment (determinism, possibilism, neo-determinism).
- Interdisciplinary: it is linked with both natural sciences (geology, climatology, biology) and social sciences (economics, sociology, political science, history), and acts as a bridge between them.
- Dynamic: the subject keeps changing with time; earlier it was descriptive, today it is analytical and uses quantitative methods.
- Dualism: it has two main branches, physical geography and human geography, and two approaches, systematic and regional.
- Use of tools and techniques: maps, field work, statistics, remote sensing, GIS and GPS.
- Applied nature: it helps in regional planning, resource management, disaster management and solving environmental problems.
