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3 years ago

Why is geography sometimes called science

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Geography is concerned with the Earth's atmosphere and physical surface, including how humans affect those things and in turn are affected by them.The discipline would be a mixture of physical and human geography, which makes it both social and physical science. hope it helps.

kotykmax [81]3 years ago

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The Scientific Process of Geography. Geography is considered a science and thus also uses the scientific method for data collection, analysis, and interpretation. There is no true definition of the scientific method because it varies so much between scientific disciplines.

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