GEO 121 GLOBAL PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Students will examine the processes that control the spatial distribution of climate, vegetation, soils and landforms. Topics include earth-sun geometry, global energy balance, hydrology, tectonics, weathering and mass wasting, climatic classification and climatographs, arid land and coastal and fluvial geomorphology. Focus will be on the Earth as the home of humans and the impact of humans on their environments.

Credits

4 sh

Offered

Offered fall.

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