# Introduction to Physical Geology

- By: Deborah Shulman
- Publisher: Chabot College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://geo.libretexts.org/Courses/Chabot_College/Introduction_to_Physical_Geology_(Shulman))
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
- Read at LibreTexts: https://geo.libretexts.org/Courses/Chabot_College/Introduction_to_Physical_Geology_(Shulman)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/geo-39815/pdf

This text address Earth's natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth's climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments.