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Physical Geography
Physical geography is the study of the earth's dynamic systems: its air, water, weather climate, landforms, rocks, soils, plants, ecosystems and biomes and how humans interact with the earth's systems. Physical geography is the study of the world around you. Everyone, every day, interacts with the earth's dynamic systems.
- Author
- K. Allison Lenkeit-Meezan
- Publisher
- Foothill College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 28 sections
- 01: Measuring Monitoring and Describing the Earth
- 1.01: Cartography
- 1.02: Location and Time on Earth
- 1.03: Map Scale and Projection
- 1.04: Remote Sensing
- 1.05: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- 02: Weather and Climate
- 2.01: Air Masses and Weather
- 2.02: Violent Weather
- 2.03: Global Climate Patterns
- 03: Earth Materials - The Lithosphere
- 3.01: The Earth's Structure
- 3.02: Geologic Time
- 3.03: Plate Tectonics
- 3.04: The Rock Cycle
- 04: Shaping the Lithosphere
- 4.01: Volcanoes
- 4.02: Volcanic Hazards
- 4.03: Orogenesis Faults and Earthquakes
- 05: The River and the Sea
- 5.01: Fluvial Processes
- 5.02: Stream Transport
- 5.03: Flood Management
- 5.04: Where River Meets Sea - The Coastal Environment
- 5.05: The Oceans
- 06: Quizzes and Exams
- 6.01: Quizzes
- 6.02: Exams