Branches of Geography

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• Cartography : Deals with the production and study of maps and charts.
• Climatology : Study of climatic features such as temperature, precipitation and humidity.
• Chorology : Study of geographical areas, plants and animal distribution.
• Demography : Described as population geography,it examines the structure of humanpopulations and their dynamic aspects.



NASA Goddard Space Flight Center image of clouds, land, ocean, and sea ice (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• Lithology : Deals with the characteristics of rocks.

• Geomorphology : Study of landforms, their distribution and origin and the forces that change them.
• Hydrology : Study of water on earth, oceans, rivers,glaciers etc.
• Oceanography : Studies the ocean currents, waves and tides.
• Geology : Study of the chemical composition of earth’s crust.
• Potamology : Study of rivers.
• Pedology : Science of nature, properties, formation,distribution and function of soils and their response to use, management and manipulation.
• Paleontology : Study of fossils.
• Orology : Study of mountains.
• Petrology : Study of the origin, composition and structure of rocks.

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