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Types of physical geography |
| Answer» Areas of physical geography include:\tGeomorphology: the shape of the Earth’s surface and how it came about\tHydrology: the Earth’s water\tGlaciology: glaciers and ice sheets\tBiogeography: species, how they are distributed and why\tClimatology: the climate\tPedology: soils\tPalaeogeography: how the continents have moved over time\tCoastal geography: how the ocean and land affect each other\tOceanography: the oceans and seas\tQuaternary science: the geography of the last 2.6 million years, including the last ice age\tLandscape ecology: how the landscape affects things like the distribution of plants and animals\tGeomatics: gathering, storing and processing geographic information – for example, making maps | |