Ecology vs Geography - What's the difference?
ecology | geography |
The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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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
As nouns the difference between ecology and geography
is that ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other while geography is the study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.ecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
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Derived terms
* agroecology * autecology * chemical ecology * dendroecology * ecology block * ethnoecology * geoecology * hydroecology * macroecology * myrmecology * palaeoecology * paleoecology * photoecology * radioecology * restoration ecology * social ecology * socioecology * synecologySee also
* English words suffixed with -ologygeography
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Noun
(wikipedia geography) (wikiversity)- 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.
