Introduces students to the characteristics of the natural environments of North America. The soils, landforms, climate, hydrology, and flora and fauna of the principal natural regions of the United States, Canada, and Central America are examined. May be repeated when the content is changed. Natural sening, resources, human use, and current problems of the North African countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and of the lands of Southwest Asia west of Pakistan. Geographic analysis of the American South, with emphasis on the dynamic character of Southern development.
Emphasis is placed on American urban areas and their evolution and functional areas.
The patterns of transportation and the geographic factors that have established them. Natural resources of the state, its leading occupations, and its geographic regions. May be taken for one to 6 hours of credit. Geography of the United States in past times with special attention to the westward movement. Contemporary world political problems in their geographic context.