Welcome!to Physical Geography

(Geog 1414)

Syllabus is on-line at:

http://www.d.umn.edu/~pfarrell

What is Physical Geography?

What is Geography?

an integrative discipline

synthesizes ideas fromother disciplines

Why what is where and so what?

Geographic Perspectives:

1. Spatial viewpoint2. Synthesis3. Representation

place

space scale

1. Spatial Viewpoint

New Orleans before and after

place

space scale

place

space scale

Geographic Perspectives:

1. Spatial viewpoint2. Synthesis3. Representation

2. Synthesis

Geography spans natural (physical / life) sciences and social (human / cultural) sciences.

Physical Geographyclimatologybiogeographygeomorphologysoils geographyhydrogeography

political geographyeconomic

geographyhistorical

geographypopulation

geography

Human Geography

Geographic Perspectives:

1. Spatial viewpoint2. Synthesis3. Representation

Physical Geography considers the surface of the earth and the interactions of the four realms that shape the surface:

atmospherelithospherehydrospherebiosphere