GEOG 1001 Chapter : CH 2
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The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of earth"s environmental systems geology, climate, hydrology, and vegetation to set the scene for better understanding the environmental geography of the 12 world regions covered in the following chapters. This chapter introduces a variety of concepts and global relationships that the student must fully understand in order to synthesize the information in individual regional chapters to follow. It also introduces the elements of the physical geography of each region that students will see in each succeeding chapter: land structures, climate, water, and vegetation. This chapter also places humans in this symbiotic system. Among the specific concepts and models that the student should understand are the following: Chapter outline: geology and human settlement: a. Restless earth: geology shapes the fundamental form of earth"s surface, human-environment interaction, geology shapes landscapes, plate tectonics: a geophysical theory that states that the surface of.
