Physical Geography [9th grade]

This unit is designed to give 9th grade World Geography students a foundational understanding of physical geography, then have the students apply that knowledge to explore the essential questions: “How does the physical world shape societies?” and “In what ways does the physical geography of a region limit or enhance a society?”. Students will investigate physical features, extreme weather, the four spheres, climate zones, and climate regions to understand the diversity of the earth’s geography. This unit will culminate in students creating their own society based on the assignment of random physical features, latitude, and extreme weather. For this summative assessment, students must apply their knowledge to evaluate their imagined society’s relationship to the landscape they inhabit

Closing of the Krishna Basin: irrigation, streamflow depletion and macroscale hydrology

River basins / Physical geography / Climate / Stream flow / Hydrology / Rainfall runoff relationships / Evapotranspiration / Irrigation programs / Water allocation / Water transfer / Environmental effects / Water quality / India / Krishna River / Andhra Pradesh / Maharashtra / Karnataka

The Founder of Physical Geography

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Ingleborough. Part I. Physical Geography

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The evolution of basic physical geography, 1892-1967 : an analysis of American physical geography textbooks

The emergence of geography in public school curriculum in the late nineteenth century was followed by the publication of numerous physical geography textbooks, especially by physiographers. These texts reflected the physiography and causation paradigm of the time. A majority of material was devoted to geomorphology, though some texts included discussopm that attempted to relate physiography to the human dimension of geography. By the early 1920s, however, the physical component of geography was in decline. In the two decades prior to 1936, no new tests in physical geography were published and no revised editions appeared after 1926. Elements of Geography, authered by Finch and Trewartha and published in 1936, marked the end of the earlier era of texts on basic physical geography and the begining of a new era that still persists

Physical geography of the Texas region

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The recent intellectual structure of geography

An active learning project in an introductory graduate course used multidimensional scaling of the name index in Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, by Gary Gaile and Cort Willmott, to reveal some features of the discipline\u27s recent intellectual structure relevant to the relationship between human and physical geography. Previous analyses, dating to the 1980s, used citation indices or Association of American Geographers spe- cialty-group rosters to conclude that either the regional or the methods and environmental subdisciplines bridge human and physical geography. The name index has advantages over those databases, and its analysis reveals that the minimal connectivity that occurs between human and physical geography has recently operated more through environmental than through either methods or regional subdisciplines