Physical Geography

by K. Allison Lenkeit-Meezan

Read here Read at LibreTextsPDF

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.

Description from LibreTexts.

Publisher
Foothill College
Subjects
Geosciences, Geography (Physical)
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

LibreTexts writes equations in TeX, and here they show as TeX; the PDF has them typeset.

  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Measuring, Monitoring and Describing the Earth
  7. 1.1: Cartography
  8. 1.2: Location and Time on Earth
  9. 1.3: Map Scale and Projection
  10. 1.4: Remote Sensing
  11. 1.5: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  12. 2: Weather and Climate
  13. 2.1: Air Masses and Weather
  14. 2.2: Violent Weather
  15. 2.3: Global Climate Patterns
  16. 3: Earth Materials - The Lithosphere
  17. 3.1: The Earth's Structure
  18. 3.2: Geologic Time
  19. 3.3: Plate Tectonics
  20. 3.4: The Rock Cycle
  21. 4: Shaping the Lithosphere
  22. 4.1: Volcanoes
  23. 4.2: Volcanic Hazards
  24. 4.3: Orogenesis, Faults and Earthquakes
  25. 5: The River and the Sea
  26. 5.1: Fluvial Processes
  27. 5.2: Stream Transport
  28. 5.3: Flood Management
  29. 5.4: Where River Meets Sea - The Coastal Environment
  30. 5.5: The Oceans
  31. 6: Quizzes and Exams
  32. 6.1: Quizzes
  33. 6.2: Exams
  34. Back Matter
  35. Index
  36. Glossary
  37. Detailed Licensing