The existence of the earth is the result of the work of God in His six days of creation. The earth is the setting prepared by God for man to glorify God, or negatively to fill his measure of iniquity. Geographers also use information from the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics to help them understand the interactions of people with their environments.
Geographers use maps and graphs to gather, interpret, and analyze geographic information.
Charts, graphs, and diagrams are also important tools of geographers. Reading a map requires you to know the elements or parts of a map. Those parts include the key, the compass rose, the scale, and a global grid. The curved surface of the earth is difficult to represent accurately on a flat map. Different projections show the round earth on flat maps with some distortion.