places and landscape

Cards (27)

  • geography
  • geography is a field of study concerned with space and spatial relations
  • human geography: how human societies are arranged and interact around the world, including economies, governments, and cultures
  • physical geography: how natural and geophysical phenomena are arranged and interact around the world, including ecosystem, mountain ranges, bodies of water, and climates;
  • environmental & society geography: interactions between humans and the natural and geophysical world, including humans impact on the environment and environmental impacts on humanity
  • geographic information sciences; technique for acquiring, analyzing and displaying geographic information, including satellites, software programs, and maps.
  • geo science if it's below the surface,
  • meteorology if its above the surface
  • the four sphere 1. atmosphere 2. hydrosphere 3. biosphere 4. lithosphere
  • atmosphere as a topic under the lens of physical geography also includes researches areas such as the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, wind jet streams, and weather
  • hydrosphere encompasses everything having to do with water
  • biosphere concerns living things on the planet and why they live, where they do, with topics from ecosystem and biomes to food webs and the carbon and nitrogen cycles
  • lithosphere includes geological processes, such as the formation pf rocks, plate tectonics, earthquake, volcanoes, soil, glaciers, and erosion
  • geomorphology fucoses on the landforms of earth and physical processes involved in creating and changing these landforms
  • hydrology the study of water cycle, including water distribution across the planet in lakes, rivers, aquifers, and ground water
  • meteorology is the study of earths weather, such as fronts precipitation, wind, storm and forecasting weather based on data available
  • glaciology is the study of glacier and ice sheets
  • climatology the study of earths atmosphere and climate
  • pedology is the physical geography specialization that studies soil
  • biogeography is the study of distribution of life forms across the planet. relating to their environments
  • coastal geography the study of coast, specifically concerning what happenswhere land and water meet
  • oceanography the study of the worlds oceans
  • geomatics is the field that gathers and analyzes geographic data, including the gravitational forces on earth, the motions of yhe poles and earth's crust and ocean tides
  • quarternary science the study of the previous 2.6 million years on earth such as the most recent ice age and holocene period
  • environmental geography the study of the interactions between people and their environment and the resulting effects, both on the environment and on the people
  • landscape ecology the study of how ecosystem interact with and effect each other in an area
  • astronomical geography the study of how the sun and the moon affect the earth as well as our planet's relationship to other celestial bodies