GEOG106- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 60 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Land surface processes: natural color composite satellite image of earth. Scale is very important o: false composite. Can see depth diffs here: geographers use many different types of scales. What do geographers do: connecting, integrating, synthesizing perspective that links knowledge from different disciplines to study of location and distribution of things (tangible and intangible). Study of places and the relationships between people and their environment. Geographer"s are not the only researchers studying earth and atmosphere - Geologists, meteorologists, hydrologists, and scientists from many other disciplines study aspects of earth"s surface and atmosphere. But only one scholarly discipline geography combines, integrates, and at its best, synthesizes knowledge from all these other fields. Know something about rocks from which soils derived. Why are arid climates found in this corner of us? (az) Smaller, spikey, grow closer to the ground, succulents. These are accounting rules saying that energy, mass, momentum cannot be created or destroyed.
