INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY

What does the term Geography mean?

The word Geography

was first used by Greek Mathematician called

Eratosthenes. He formed it from two Greek words;

geo which means the earth and ghaphien

which means to draw, describe or write

The two words formed the word geographienwhich means to draw,describe or write about the earth.This word was later accepted into the

English language as

geography

Geography can be defined as the scientific study of the earth as a home

to humankind. It can also be defined as the

study of the distribution of

natural and human phenomena on the earth's surface and how they

relate to each other. These definitions show that geography is a science

that studies the earth as the environment of humankind. The word

environment

means the wo

rd in which people, animals and plants live,

and their surroundings

These surroundings affect an organism's behaviour or activities. The organisms can be a plant, animal or human being