GPHY 102 Lecture 1: Week1- Lec0+1+2

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Scott Lamoureux

Document Summary

Frank slide, turtle mountain, alberta (caused by hazards, coal mining) Climatology average changes in weather relying on global climate models (gcms: meteorology short term changes in weather used in weather report, geomorphology landforms, oceanography b) Map point (locaion), line (connecion), area data (region) a) Geographic informaion system (gis) computer controlled display of spaial data. Remote sensing ( ) images provided by aircrat or spacecrat, also in water. Regional geography: examines everything in one area, historical and unique. Systemaic geography: examines one thing in all areas, broad. Atmosphere gas, surrounds earth, receives all heat and energy. Lithosphere outermost solid layer, thin soil layer but crucial. Biosphere living things, interact to all of the other spheres a) b) Life layer most biosphere is contained in the life layer. Land surface and the upper 100m of the ocean supports all living things. Scales: 105 1010cm in size is the interest. Global scale a) b) from solar scale because sun is the power source.