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What Geography Is Geographers study the material and symbolic transformation of the earth in relationship to both human and natural processes. In keeping with contemporary global shifts in culture, the environment, politics and economics, the boundaries of the geographic discipline are dynamic. For example, environmental change, international development, globalization, and new spatial technologies exemplify important arenas of study in geography. Theories of space, scale, location, place, region, mobility and displacement allow geographers to critically analyze change in both human and physical environments. 
Geography
is both a natural science and a social science as it examines people
and their environment and serves as a bridge between the physical and
cultural worlds. Human geography (a social science) is concerned especially
with the political, economic, social, and cultural processes and resource
practices that give definition to particular places and that are affected
by them. Physical geography (a natural science) focuses on the earth
systems that create the natural environment, such as weather, soils,
biogeography, and earth sculpting processes. Courses offered in the
Geography Department at Dartmouth College address a range of these key
issues.
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