what is the difference between human geography and physical geography?

Answer 1

Physical geography includes the formation of things such as mountains, glaciers and glaciation, rivers, lakes, deltas, beaches and also rocks and soil types as well as minerals. These rely on the underlying geology as well as climatic conditions over millions of years. Physical geog also includes climate and weather phenomena such as clouds, rainfall, flooding and how it is caused, snow/hail/frost, sunshine, winds, pressure phenomena/tornados, sea currents....etc. In addition things such as ice ages, global warming, erosion and other effects of (and on) human activities are analysed.

Human geography includes activities undertaken by people e.g. the siting of settlements, water resources, growing crops (including subsistence farming), large-scale farming, forestry, fishing, extracting minerals and oil, importing and exporting materials such as foods, oil, minerals etc., tourism, travel/transport and its effects and many others. Links may be made with planning for new towns in relation to populations and demographic variables etc.

Links between human and physical geography are made e.g. tourism relates to snowfall in ski resorts, fishing relates to climatic and sea conditions ....etc

The above is only a brief account but I hope it gives some help.

Answer 2

Human geography is population and how many people live in a certain place etc and physical geography is about the land like coasts, rivers, how the lands shaped and the processes such as the water cycle and things like that. Hope this helped.

Answer 3

Human geography concentrates on matters of population, food resources, city planning, basically anything connected to the use of Earth's resources by humans. Physical geography looks at the natural processes of the Earth such as vulcanology, seismology, the weather and climate, river systems etc.

Answer 4

Physical geography pertains to the "lay of the land". Examples would be the location of mountain ranges or bodies of water. Human geography pertains to the ways that humans have used the land and settled. Examples would be the locations of towns or the demographics of a certain area.

Answer 5

Physical geography is more concerned with the formation of the land masses of the earth, mineral contents of rocks and weathering of the landscape due to the effects of climate.

Answer 6

Human geography is the study of how human beings shape and adapt to their surroundings and how, for instance, they may behave differently in cities perhaps, compared with people in suburbia or in rural districts.
Physical geography is more concerned with the formation of the land masses of the earth, mineral contents of rocks and weathering of the landscape due to the effects of climate.
Lots more info is available by looking at the courses available at the UK open university website OU.ac.uk
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Answer 7

I think human geography is geographical features that humans created--like towns, buildings, borders, that sort of thing. I think physical geography is probably natural features like mountains and lakes.

Answer 8

Physical Geography is about the earth structures.Human Geography is about how human beings inter react with the earth.A good example is global warming,,where humans,by their lifestyles cause physical problems,eg increase in temperature,leading to melting ice caps leading to flooding around coasts leading to population movements.

Answer 9

Human And Physical Geography

Answer 10

looks at the natural proccesses of the earth such such as climate etc