10 reasons why

10 Ten Reasons Why Every Student Should Study Geography

Geographic Education

Enseignement de la géographie

To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun relationships,

water cycles, wind and ocean currents).

To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places

in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.

To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important

roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places and environments.

To develop a mental map of your community, province or territory, country and the world

so that you can understand the “where” of places and events.

To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and

sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.

To understand the spatial organization of society and see order in what often appears to

be random scattering of people and places.

To recognize spatial distributions at all scales – local and worldwide – in order to

understand the complex connectivity of people and places.

To be able to make sensible judgements about matters involving relationships between the

physical environment and society.

To appreciate Earth as the homeland of humankind and provide insight for wise

management decisions about how the planet’s resources should be used.

To understand global interdependence and to become a better global citizen.