Natural Elements

18/10/16
Hello my name is Pablo Covarrubias Delmar 7B  and in this Project I am going to talk about Natural Elements.

                    Physical Geography  
                            

Physical Geography or ( physiography ) is a branch of natural science that studies the spatial patterns of weather and climate, soils, vegetation, animals, water in all its forms, and landforms and this is associated with the issues of the atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, pedosphere , and hydrosphere.This sub-field of Geography is academically known as Human-Land Tradition.

Scope of Physical Geography

Physical Geography's Scope is much broader than the simple spatial study of nature. It also involves the investigation of how humans are influencing nature. Academic studies of Physical Geography and other related earth sciences are in fact specialized in their fields of knowledge and tend to focus themselves in one of the following well defined areas of understanding in physical geography:

Geomorphology - studies the various landforms on the Earth's surface.

Pedology - is concerned with the study of soils.

Biogeography - is the science that investigates the spatial relationships of plants and animals.

Hydrology - is interested in the study of water in all its forms.

Meteorology - studies the circulation of the atmosphere over short time spans.

Climatology - studies the effects of weather on life and examines the circulation of the atmosphere over longer time spans.

The concentration in Physical Geography is structured with a strong background in the natural sciences and expertise in three main topical areas of Physical Geography: 1) Vegetation Science , 2) Hydrology and 3) Climate.

Vegetation Science: It studies the process of growth
in plants: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, or  the process of an individual organism growing organically of a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.

Hydrology: It studies the circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth on its atmosphere and their relationship with the environment within each phase of the hydrologic cycle. The water cycle, or hydrologic cycle, is a continuous process by which water is purified by evaporation and transported from the earth's surface (including the oceans) to the atmosphere and back to the land and oceans.

Climate: It studies the statistics of weather, usually over a 30-year interval. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time.