geography that deals with social, economic, and behavioral processes that differentiate places

The study of people and their activities. physical geography

one of the two major divisions of systematic geography; the spatial analysis of human population, their cultures, and activities.

The study of the distribution of human populations, their cultures, their activities and behaviors, and their relationship with and impact on the physical landscapes they occupy.

See also Cultural Geography

Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earth's surface. Geography is concentrated on the question "where". Human geography, however, focuses on answering the "why" of "where".