Characteristics of colonizations, settlement patterns, resource development and culture groups in the evolving regional pattern. GR-E GEA 3500 Geography of Europe. The biophysical basis of natural resource management, cultural diversity and economic development in Amazonia are explored. Appreciating the complexity and variability of soils, vegetation, aquatic ecosystems and climate in the region offers clues for understanding human settlement and development as well as the potential and limitations of the rich natural resource base. The spatial organization of society.
Emphasis is placed upon the political regions of the world.
A study of the development and distribution of landforms, climates, minerals, soils and water resources. Interrelationships among the physical environment and regional patterns formed by these elements are analyzed against the man s utilization of them. Laboratory in physical geography. Available for laboratory science credit. A study of physical landscapes with emphasis on the United States.