This includes the surface elevation, vegetation, roads and buildings, and other features commonly found on topographic maps. Physiography is only the geologic surface or terrain features of an area. These are also known as landforms. Among the more common landforms are mountains, hills, valleys, cliffs, and plains. The study of landforms is known as geomorphology.
Geomorphology is studied by both geographers and geologists.
Physical The land itself is worthy of our attention for just a moment. However small it is, that quarter of our globe does much to influence the climate of our fair earth. In addition to affecting physical properties of climate and vegetation, physiography influences many cultural properties of our world. Highland areas typically serve to diminish contact and therefore diminish cultural influences on either side of a mountain chain. In particular, think about how and why India's culture is so distinct from the rest of East and Southeast Asia.