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Geosciences| According to the Association of American
Geographers, Geography is the science of place and space.
Geographers ask where things are located on the surface of the
earth, why they are located where they are, how places differ
from one another, and how people interact with the environment.
There are two main branches of geography: human geography and
physical geography. Human geography is concerned with the
spatial aspects of human existence - how people and their
activity are distributed in space, how they use and perceive
space, and how they create and sustain the places that make up
the earth's surface. Physical geographers study patterns of
climates, land forms, vegetation, soils, and water. They
forecast the weather, manage land and water resources, and
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