Therefore, it is essential to know the characteristics of physical systems composed of land forms, soils, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, weather, and climate and how these characteristics are distributed over Earth's surface.
(physical systems; composed; of land forms, soils, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, weather, and climate and how these characteristics are distributed over Earth's surface) (these characteristics; are distributed; L:over Earth's surface)
physical systems these characteristics
composed are distributed
of land forms, soils, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, weather, and climate and how these characteristics are distributed over Earth's surface
L:over Earth's surface