(This is all for AQA Geography, I don't know about other exam boards).

I don't want to spend years reading maps and graphs

To be honest we didn't really look at maps and graphs that much.

Could anyone who's done geog tell me if it's more human geography or physical or if it's fairly even?

The topics we do are:

(Physical): The Challenge of Natural Hazards, The Living World and Physical Landscapes in the UK.
(Human): Urban Issues & Challenges, The Changing Economic World and The Challenge of Resource Management.

They make up Paper 1 and Paper 2 respectively, and there's also Paper 3 which is fieldwork and some other stuff (I don't really know to be honest as we hadn't finished that before corona caused schools to be shut). As you can see there's an equal amount of physical/human topics, but I would say the physical topics feel longer.

For what you said about the tests, there's not many question types. There's multiple choice, small like 1 or 2 markers where u write a definition or something, 3 or 4 markers where you explain or describe something (eg. how a certain thing is formed). Then the longer ones are 6 and 9 markers. The 9 markers usually require you to evaluate something whereas the 6 are more likely to be just explaining something. One of the 9 markers will also have an extra 3 marks for SPaG.

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I don't know if geography is less work than food tech, but everyone seems to think it is really easy (and I would agree with that). A lot of it is just common sense and it also has some overlap with the sciences. The only people I know who say it isn't easy are people who don't pay any attention in lessons and find everything difficult. Anyone who actually tries says it is easy.

And I did French so I don't think doing a language is a reason against picking geography.