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Biology vs Geography - What's the difference?

biology | geography |

As nouns the difference between biology and geography

is that biology is the study of all life or living matter while geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.

biology

English

(wikipedia biology)

Noun

  • The study of all life or living matter.
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  • The living organisms of a particular region.
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  • The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
    • the biology of the whale

    Synonyms

    * , life science, life sciences

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * actinobiology * aerobiology * agrobiology * astrobiology * chemical biology * chronobiology * cryobiology * developmental biology * electrobiology * evolutionary biology * evolutionary developmental biology * exobiology * forensic biology * geobiology * geomicrobiology * glycobiology * hydrobiology * immunobiology * macrobiology * marine biology * microbiology * molecular biology * neurobiology * nonbiology * palaeobiology * paleobiology * pathobiology * photobiology * phytobiology * psychobiology * radiation biology * radiobiology * sociobiology * soil microbiology * space biology * structural biology * synthetic biology * synthetic-biology * systems biology * xenobiology

    Related terms

    * biological * biologically * biologic * biologism * biologist * biologize

    See also

    *

    geography

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)
  • The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
  • The physical structure of a particular region; terrain.
  • * 1973 , Helen Miller Bailey, Abraham Phineas Nasatir, Latin America: the development of its civilization
    • The geography of the Andes approaches never made transportation easy; routes to Bogota, Quito, La Paz, and Cuzco were so precipitous as to slow down the development of those Spanish cities in the interior.

    Derived terms

    * biogeography * geographer * geographic * geographical * phytogeography * zoogeography

    See also

    * (wikipedia)