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GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 619 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write) , the exact and organized knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the surface of the earth. The fundamental basis of geography is the vertical
relief
  of the earth's crust, which controls all mobile distributions. The grander features of the
relief
  of the lithosphere or stony crust of the earth
control
  the distribution of the hydrosphere or collected waters which gather into the hollows, filling them up to a height corresponding to the volume, and thus producing the important
practical
  division of the surface into land and water. The distribution of the
mass
  of the atmosphere over the surface of the earth is also controlled by the relief of the crust, its greater or lesser density at the surface corresponding to the lesser or greater
elevation
  of the surface. The simplicity of the zonal distribution of solar energy on the earth's surface, which would characterize a uniform globe, is entirely destroyed by the dissimilar action of land and water with regard to radiant heat, and by the influence of crust-forms on the direction of the resulting circulation. The influence of
physical
  environment becomes clearer and stronger when the distribution of plant and animal
life
  is considered, and if it is less distinct in the case of man, the reason is found in the modifications of environment consciously produced by human effort. Geography is a synthetic science, dependent for the data with which it deals on the results` of specialized sciences such as astronomy, geology, oceanography, meteorology,
biology
  and anthropology, as well as on topographical description. The
physical
  and natural sciences are concerned in geography only so far as they deal with the forms of the earth's surface, or as regards the distribution of phenomena. The distinctive task of geography as a science is to investigate the
control
  exercised by the crust-forms directly or indirectly upon the various mobile distributions. This gives to it unity and definiteness, and renders superfluous the attempts that have been made from time to time to define the limits which divide geography from geology on the one hand and from history on the other. It is essential to classify the subject-matter of geography in such a manner as to give prominence not only to facts, but to their mutual relations and their natural and inevitable order.
The fundamental conception of geography is form, including


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