GPHY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Secondary Succession, Deflation, Earthflow

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Paul M Treitz

Document Summary

Continental: albedo, water, latitude, longitude, elevation; ocean and air currents. Regional: sub-continental. cloud, weather and climate patterns. regional vegetation and soil. Local: exact patterns of weather and climate, vegetation and species etc. more precise than regional. e. g. lake ontario"s effect on kingston"s weather; or little cataraqui creek. Time cycle: regular intervals in which flow rates in a system speed up-slow down. e. g. 365 days. Vertical as well as horizontal. e. g. economic geography. systematic approach ranges from human geography (social economic behavioural) and natural sciences (atmospheric, terrestrial and marine). Spatial information: maps, spatial analysis, images all numerical based. Tools in geography information science (portraying information on earth"s surface) include: maps (cartography), geographical information systems (gis) more easily up-to-date than maps, remote sensing (from aircraft/spacecraft), gps, mathematical modeling. Focus on patterns and processes on earth"s surface. Geomorphology: how landforms are created which also involves oceanography and costal geography (erosion, etc) Geography of soils: distribution of different soil formations.