Why Study Geography?

                   Geography is a science subject that show about the phenomena, lands, features and inhabitants of the earth. In other words, it can be said that write something about the earth. Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. But modern geography is mainly about understanding the Earth and all of its human and natural complexities. Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the bridge between the human and the physical science". Geography is divided into two main branches : physical geography and human geography.

Why Study Geography

There are several reasons for study Geography like -

•  to know how to make our lives 'easier'
•  to know how to prepare for protecting many kind of natural disasters
•  to understand the five themes of geography
•  to help us know not only the place that we live but also the places around all over the world
•  to be a well-educated global citizen and also
•  to know more about our planet
  

Realize there is many beautiful places on our earth

7 Wonders of the world

By studying Geography, we can know many places that we didn't never heard before day by day. For me, I know many beautiful places in different countries like 7 wonders of the world, the London Bridge, Paris Tower and also the statue of Liberty now. It is quite exciting for me. In the past, I only think that Myanmar, the country that i born is so beautiful, but now when I saw many amazing places through Geography, it make me really speechless. And also you can visit to many different countries through the pictures and also the words that are in Geography. You can enjoy in the flow of many sentences that write about how beautiful is our planet. Don't you think that it is really an exciting experience and have many fun? So I want to say that studying geography is really good for knowing any other places around the world, not just the place where we live.

Know how to protect many kinds of natural disasters

              A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). When it happens once,financial, environmental or human losses cause. If these disasters continue it would be a great danger for the earth. This understanding is concentrated in the formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet vulnerability."  The term natural has consequently been disputed because the events simply are not hazards or disasters without human involvement. As we know, there has several natural disasters like volcano explosion, tsunami, earthquakes, forest burning and so on happen all over the world nowadays. For us, we must to learn how to prepare for protecting from that kind of disasters or what should we do after disasters. By studying Geography, we can know how terrible are the natural disasters and we will also know what to do when they happen in the areas that we live. And the tables below are some natural disasters that happened in 2001 - 2011, let's take a look on it.

From the table, we can see that there always happens many kind of disasters every year. So, it is enough for us to study Geography even only by this reason.


Being a well-educated global citizen
          The people who take the subject that teaches about geography will actually study about critical thinking, research and communicate their ideas through writing and other ways of communication independently in order to know about our planet and its people. So, they will have skills that are really useful in all kinds of jobs.

          Finally, geography,a well-rounded subject, provides the people who study geography with both a huge range of career opportunities and knowledges about how humans are effecting the planet that we live, and also our rapidly-changing world.

Knowing more about our planet

         Studying geography can provide a person with a fully understanding of our planet and how it system works. The people who learn about geography are better prepared to know topics that are affecting the world such as desertification, natural disasters, global warming, climate change and others that are related with the world. And also by understanding political geography, they are in the well-positioned to solve the issues that happen between countries, cultures, cities and regions between countries. So it seems like that the world are in our hands and it has gotten smaller by learning about our planet through geography.

Understanding the Five Themes of Geography

        The Five Themes of Geography were written in 1984. Created by the Joint Committee on Geographic Education of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Those five themes are describing about location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement (travel; immigration; emigration), and regions. 

Location are in two different ways: Absolute Location describes about latitude and longitude on the Earth and Relative Location, a location as shown by where it is compared to something else.

Place, a description of what it is like to live in a certain place.

Human-environment Interaction shown some about how people interact with the environment and how the environment responds.

Movement describes the travel of people, goods and ideas from one place to another or political events.

Region contains clusters of areas that are distinctive by their uniformity of description based on a range of statistical data.

Making our lives 'easier'

        There are several branches in geography and the subject that teaches about human geography is also one of the branches of geography. In human geography, it mainly teaches about -

• Culture  geography - subject of cultural products, norms, variation and relations to spaces and places.
• Development  geography - the study of the Standard of living and Quality of life.
• Economic  geography - examines relationships between human economic systems, states, and other factors, and the biophysical environment.
• Health  geography - the application of geographical information, perspectives, and methods to the study of health, disease and health care.
• Historical  geography - the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past.
• Political geography - concerns with the study of both the spatially uneven outcomes of political processes and political processes affected themselves by spatial structures.
• Population Geography - the ways of spatial variations in the distribution, composition, migration and growth of populations are related to the natural of places.
• Tourism Geography - study of travel and tourism.

So, we can make our living style easier than before if we learn some about human geography.

               In conclusion, I want to say that if you are interested in a career that involves travel, you won’t be disappointed. Geographers really can work anywhere in the world! And also, I think that these are all reasons for me about the question why study Geography?

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_themes_of_geography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll