Unit 1 - Geography Flashcards
Climatology
Geographic study of climates this includes not only climate classification in the analysis of the regional distribution but broader environmental questions that concern climate change into relationships with soil and vegetation and humid climate interaction in anyway consciously thinking
Biogeography
Geography of plants and animals
Closed system
Self-contained system exhibiting no exchange of energy or matter across its borders to be
Dynamic equilibrium
State of a system in balance when it is neither growing nor contracting but continues in full operation was
Feedback
Occurs when a change in one part of the system causes a change in another part of the system
Geomorphology
Literally means earth shape or form geography of landscape and it’s evolution a major subfield of physical geography
Marine geography
Physical side of the subfield treats coastlines in Shores Beach is another landscape features associated with the oceanic margins of the continent
Model
Creation of an idealized representation of reality in order to demonstrate its most important property
Open system
System his boundaries freely permit the transfer of energy and matter across them
Order of magnitude
Sizes of geographic entities
Phytogeography
Geography of Florida or plant life where botany and physical geography overlap
Soil geography
Systematic study of the spatial patterns of soils their distribution in the relationship with Clinate vegetation and humankind
Spatial
Pertaining to space on the earth surface synonym for Geo graphical
Subsystem
Component of a larger system you can act independently but operates with him and his link to the larger system
System
Any set of related objects or events in their interactions
