[单项选择] Geography is the study of the relationship between people and the land. Geographers compare and contrast 【B1】 places on the earth. But they also 【B2】 beyond the individual places and consider the earth as a 【B3】 The word geography 【B4】 from two Greek words, “ge”, the Greek word for "earth" and “graphein”, 【B5】 means "to write". The English word geography means "to describe the earth" 【B6】 geography books focus on a small area 【B7】 a town or city. Others deal with a state, a region, a nation, or an 【B8】 continent. Many geography books deal with the whole earth. Another 【B9】 to divide the study of 【B10】 is to distinguish between physical geography and cultural geography. The former focuses on the natural world; the 【B11】 starts with human beings and 【B12】 how human beings and their environment act 【B13】 each other. But when geography is considered as a single subject, 【B14】 branch can neglect the other. A geographer might be described 【B15】 one who observes, records, and explains
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