雅思聽力:地理課程(2/4)

There's the study of political geography and social geography too, of course, which is the study of communities of people. We have economic geography, in which we examine all kinds of resources and their use, agriculture, for example. Next comes historical geography, the understanding of how people and their environments and the ways their interact have changed over a period of time, and urban geography, an aspect I'm particularly interested in, which takes as its focus the location of cities, the services that those cities provide, and migration of people of to and from such cities. And lastly, we have cartography. That's the art and science of map-making. You'll be doing a lot of that. So, to summarise before we continue, we now have our key answer, studying this subject is important because without geographical knowledge, we would know very little about our surroundings and we wouldn't be able to identify all the problems that relate to them. So, by definition, we wouldn't be in an informed position to work out how to solve any of them.