COPY: Physical Geography Quiz

Overview of Physical Geography

• Physical geography is one of the three main branches of geography
• Physical geography deals with the processes and patterns in the natural environment such as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere
• Physical geography can be divided into several branches or related fields
• Physical geographers tend to publish in interdisciplinary journals rather than predominantly geography journals
• Textbooks, books, and journals communicate and document the results of research carried out in universities and various other research institutions
• Geography was almost exclusively a natural science until the birth of anthropogeography (human geography) in the late nineteenth century
• The European colonial expansion in the nineteenth century and the theory of evolution by Darwin in mid-century had a great effect on the further development of physical geography
• William Morris Davis revolutionized the field of physical geography to develop a cycle of erosion theory which he proposed as a paradigm for geography in general
• Davis’s theory helped to modernize and create a geography subfield of geomorphology
• Physical geography has notable physical geographers
• Physical geography overlaps with human geography and technical geography.