GPHY 102 Lecture : Physical Geography Notes.pdf

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Ryan K Danby

Document Summary

Study of the physical or natural environment. The physical environment often uses shapes or influences human movement, culture, resource us, behavior, land use, etc. Physical geographers examine natural processes, including environmental responses to human activities. Examines the characteristics of particular places on earth. Examines everything in one area. Looks for principles that explain the patterns and processes that we observe on the earth. Examines one thing everywhere. Studies the heat and moisture states of the earths surface that create our weather. Current emphasis on global climate modeling. Is the study of the earth surface processes and landforms. Geomorphological processes shaping coasts and shorelines. Studies the distributions of soil types, their properties and processes of formation. Studies the distributions of organisms over space and time and the processes that produce those distributions. Refers to behavior (mechanisms by which change occurs) Refers to expression (what you see at any given time)