What is the role of nature in physical geography?
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That is a very general question. Physical geography is the study of areal distribution and the spatial aspects of nature and natural processes. It includes geomorphology, geology, oceanography, meteorology, climatoloty, ecology, pedology, etc...any science that can be described spatially can be studied in a physiographical light.\n\nNote:'Physiography' is just fancy for physical geography.\n\nIt has been said that physical geography is the study of natural processes and ecosystems; human geography is the study of how we're screwing them all up.
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Maps of the world or large areas are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures.\n\nMaps that depict the surface of the Earth also use a projection, a way of translating the three-dimensional real surface of the geoid to a two-dimensional picture. Perhaps the best-known world-map projection is the Mercator Projection, originally designed as a form of nautical chart.\n\nAirplane pilots use aeronautical charts based on a Lambert conformal conic projection, in which a cone is laid over the section of the earth to be mapped. The cone intersects the sphere (the earth) at one or two parallels which are chosen as standard lines. This allows the pilots to plot a great-circle route approximation on a flat, two-dimensional chart.
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Yes, i do think its important. but its proabably the hardest topic to memorize since theres so much of it to know.  Geography which is the physical nature of the earth like climate, vegitation, sea masses, and all of their interactin with the human population.  So there for when you see some one on your television talking about the days weather or when you find diseases that can seriously put a hurting to the populaion on the earth like mad cow disease. All of this has to do with geography,  Geography in my opinion is a very important subject.  And the thing is every day of your life involves it.
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By erosion and quakes and volcanic activity and plate tectonics. that is the natural thing that change it. The unnatural things are construction like the Piramids and the California Aquaduct and power plants and buildings. And the distruction of the rain forests and exploration of the ocians. And so much more. The surface is in constant flux and always changing.
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Natural Resouces are the physical things (minerals, water, forests, etc) that an area or country contains. hey dont affect the country...
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Everything in nature has a cause, but I would contest it having a purpose. Natural selection could be described as "purposeful" in a sense because it benefits those species that can adapt to changing conditions and compete for limited resources. But the mechanism is pretty well explained and doesn't require conscious, supervisory intent. \nHurricanes happen for pretty well known causes too, and to impute a purpose in this case is a much longer stretch. But if it is absolutely required to define a purpose, you could say that hurricanes aid evolution by placing unusually high stresses on most life forms that experience them. If overpopulation has reached resource-threatening levels, this may be ultimately beneficial to a species, aiding the selection process if it doesn't wipe them out.
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How scientific do you want it?\n\nBasically, air circulates the earth.\n\nThis air has different temperatures in different places.\n\nThe different temperatures cause different pressures of air masses.\n\nBecause of this air flows around air masses due to the pressure gradient between different masses.\n\nThis air flow drags air of even higher temperature differences into contact.\n\nDifferent air temperatures meet causing one to rise over the other, as this rising air goes up it cools and causes clouds (These areas where air masses join are the fronts on a weather map).\n\nThese clouds then produce rain.\n\nThat rain changes temperatures, more air masses are drawn into contact, and the cycle repeats.
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Earth science is any of several essentially geologic sciences that are concerned with the origin, structure, and physical phenomena of the earth.
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i hate Geography:\n\nGeography is the study of the Earth and its features and of the distribution of life on the earth, including human life and the effects of human activity. Geography research addresses both the questions of where, as well as why phenomena occurs in particular places. The word comes from the Greek words Ge (γη) or Gaea (γαια), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γραφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write".\n\n"Mere place names are not geography. To know by heart a whole gazeteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute anyone a geographer. Geography has higher aims than this... to trace out the great laws of nature and to mark their influence upon man. In a word, geography is a science, a thing not of mere names, but of argument and reason, of cause and effect." -- William Hughes (King's College, 1863)\n\nSince place matters for everything from economics and health, to climate, plants and animals, geography is highly interdisciplinary. Geography draws upon and contributes to numerous other knowledge disciplines. Geography is broadly divided into human geography and physical geography, with subfields of geography including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, biogeography, geomorphology, coastal geography, and others.\n\nWith advances in computer technology, the analytical and spatial data management tools available to geographers, including Geographic Information Systems and spatial data analysis, are now allowing geographers for more rigorious, quantitative analysis of spatial phenomena. Though, the qualitative approach to geography remains important, with ethnography and other methodologies used to investigate theories of spatial phenomena.\n\nPhysical geography\nPhysical geography (or physiogeography) focuses on geography as an Earth science. It aims to understand the physical features of the Earth, its lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, pedosphere and global flora and fauna patterns (biosphere). Physical Geography can be divided into the following broad categories:\n\nCartography \nGeology \nGeomorphology \nCoastal/Marine studies \nHydrology/Hydrography \nGlaciology \nLimnology \nOceanography/Oceanology \nClimatology \nPedology \nBiogeography \nGeodesy \nPalaeogeography and paleoclimatology \nEnvironmental Geography and management \nLandscape ecology \nGIS \n\nHuman geography\nHuman geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with various environments. It encompasses human, political, cultural, social, and economic aspects. While the major focus of human geography is not the physical landscape of the Earth (see physical geography) it is hardly possible to discuss human geography without referring to the physical landscape on which human activities are being played out, and environmental geography is emerging as a link between the two.\n\nHuman geography can be divided into many broad categories, such as:\n\nEconomic geography \nDevelopment geography \nPopulation geography or Demography* \nUrban geography \nSocial geography \nBehavioral geography \nCultural geography \nPolitical geography, including Geopolitics* \nHistorical geography \nRegional geography \nTourism geography \nStrategic geography \nMilitary geography \nFeminist geography \nEnvironmental geography \nChildren's geographies \n* Distinction between these fields of study have become increasingly blurred over time and the above list should not be considered definitive.\n\nRelated topics: Countries of the world - Country - Nation - State - Personal union - Province - County - City - Municipality - Central place theory - Urban morphology\n\nSocio-environmental geography\nDuring the time of environmental determinism, geography was defined not as the study of spatial relationships, but as the study of how humans and the natural environment interact. Though environmental determinism has lo
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There are no rates that directly tie into geography.  AG is meteorology and that's the closest rate to anything vagueley resembling the planet and it's environment.
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A physiographic region is one that has similar landforms and similar evolutionary history
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Evolution of reproduction. Nature finds its way.
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Mountains don't have any geographic functions because they are usually something thats formed when plates collide during tectonic movement or oceanic lithosphere is subducted undearneath continental lithosphere and magma boils to the surface. If you want to learn more about mountains, take an Earth Science class, or looking up plate tectonics online.
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An ecological niche is not a "place" or a "site" in space, although the 'niche metaphor' may lead us to think of it that way (because a 'niche' is a hollow where things fit).\nIn short, the ecological niche is every function and relationship that links a particular species to all its environment (which includes both other living beings and  abiotic, or non-living, factors). You cannot define an ecological niche without the species, or define the species without its niche, because the niche arises from the interaction between the individuals (their 'inside' processes) and their environment (the 'outside'). \nIn order to describe the niche, you need to enumerate all these relationships: where the species lives, at what times it is active, and how its activities change, what does it eat and what feeds upon it (trophic relationships), what other living beings interact with it (competition, parasitism, cooperation, symbiosis, etc), what are its tolerance ranges for environmental factors (temperature, humidity, precipitations, sunlight, etc)... everything that the species represents from an ecological viewpoint. \nThe ecological niche can be visualized on the basis of Hutchinson's idea of a multidimensional niche. \nPicture this: \nYou make a graph showing the temperature tolerance range for a given species, and it will look like this:\nhttp://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/images/textbook/growth/temp_curve.gif\nThat's one ecological factor.\n\nNow we add a second factor, in this case, moisture:\nhttp://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/niche.gif\nWe have a 2-dimensional graph.\n\nIf we consider a third ecological factor, we get a 3-D graph. \nWhen more ecological factors are included, the representation becomes an hypervolume and cannot be represented in a simple graph.\n\nNow, back to the spruce beetle. This species (Dendroctonus rufipennis) is responsible for extensive damage to Northern Hemisphere forests. I hope the above explanation has made it clear than a forest is not an ecological niche. The forest is a habitat, but the beetle lives in a subdivision of this habitat that constitutes its specific microhabitat. The niche includes this microhabitat, but also what the beetle eats, its predators, symbionts, parasites, its temperature tolerance ranges, the particular species of trees where it breeds and feeds, etc. You can find that information here:\nhttp://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/sprucebeetle/sprucebeetle.htm\nhttp://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/forests/health/i_sprucebeetle.html\n\nTake into account that this beetle, as most insects, has indirect development. That means that the requirements of the larva, pupa and adult will probably be different and each life stage will have its own niche.\n\nI hope this helps!
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Yes, physics is interesting and it is the study of how nature works. Keep trying and thinking about things. Develop your logic and things will be easier to understand.
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Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (phusikos), "natural", and φύσις (phusis), "nature") is the science of Nature in the broadest sense. Physicists study the behavior and properties of matter in a wide variety of contexts, ranging from the sub-nuclear particles from which all ordinary matter is made (particle physics) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole (cosmology).
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=v\n\ngreat site