加拿大地理教育議會（Canadian Council for Geographic Education）
學生要學地理的十個理由：

1.了解影響我們每日生活的基本自然體系（太陽與地球的關係、水循環、風與洋流等）。
2.學習各地的地理位置、自然與人文特徵，以便在這個越來越相互依存的世界中有效地運作。
3.了解過去的地理學，並且了解地理學如何在人類、人類的想法、居住地與環境的演化過程中，扮演了重要的角色。
4.建立對你的社區、省或領域、國家以及世界的心智圖，以便了解地方與事件「在哪裡」。
5.解釋人類與自然系統如何指引與改變地表的過程。
6.了解社會中的空間組織，看懂人與地的關連，即使這些常被認為是隨機分布的。
7.體認各種尺度的空間分布（地方與世界的），以便理解人地之間複雜的聯結關係。
8.能夠作出涉及自然環境與社會間的敏感判斷。
9.對地球這個人類家園懷有感激，並且能夠對如何運用地球上的資源，提供智慧的管理洞見。
10.了解全球相互依存的關係，成為一個更好的世界公民

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Top 10 Reasons to Study Geography

1. To understand basic physical systems that affect everyday life (e.g. earth-sun relationships, water cycles, wind and ocean currents).
2. To learn the location of places and the physical and cultural characteristics of those places in order to function more effectively in our increasingly interdependent world.
3. To understand the geography of past times and how geography has played important roles in the evolution of people, their ideas, places and environments.
4. To develop a mental map of your community, province or territory, country and the world so that you can understand the “where” of places and events.
5. To explain how the processes of human and physical systems have arranged and sometimes changed the surface of the Earth.
6. To understand the spatial organization of society and see order in what often appears to be random scattering of people and places.
7. To recognize spatial distributions at all scales — local and worldwide — in order to understand the complex connectivity of people and places.
8. To be able to make sensible judgements about matters involving relationships between the physical environment and society.
9. To appreciate Earth as the homeland of humankind and provide insight for wise management decisions about how the planet’s resources should be used.
10. To understand global interdependence and to become a better global citizen.