Geographer Versus Biologist



Biology is the study of life. To learn more about biology you can visit KidsBiology.com. Biologists are scientists who study life forms in all their varieties, and who do their best to use their knowledge about these life forms to both protect life on Earth, as well as help mankind.

Biologists study the complex systems with each life form. For example, consider a beetle. A biologist is looking to understand how the beetle’s body works. What makes its legs move back and forth, how does it digest its food, how does it fly, and so forth.

A geographer is not concerned so much with how the beetle’s body works, but rather, with how the beetle effects the landscape of Earth, as well as how the beetle, and all of its fellow beetles are distributed around the Earth, and so forth.

Thus, biologists study the life form itself, and how it works, while geographers look at how the same life form effects the Earth, other life forms, and how they are distributed throughout the biosphere.