GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, Secularism, Human Development Index
23 Apr 2017
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Climatic conditions landforms are often conductive to certain types of human activities. Certain climates and physiographic areas are well suited to certain types of activities. People have adapted their way of life to their natural surroundings. People have adapted their surroundings to suit their way of life. Ex: transforming forests into elds, changing dietary tastes to suit what sauces of food energy were available. These landscapes are often conspicuous, and are associated with particular signs. Weather: the local and daily conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, etc. Climate: the typical weather conditions for a place, averaged over a period of time. The climate system involved the interactions of air, water, and the sun"s energy resulting in variations in temperature and precipitation. A series of global and local processes result in variable climatic conditions. Global: such as i) atmospheric circulation, and ii) variations in solar radiation due to the tilt of the earth relative to the sun.
