Introduction to Physical Geography
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Explore Earth's natural systems! This course covers landforms, climate, and more, providing a solid introduction to physical geography.
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USGS Geology Resources
Free government resources on physical geology topics like earthquakes, volcanoes, and rocks.
NASA Earth Observatory
NASA site publishing satellite imagery with explanatory articles on weather, wildfires, ice, oceans, land cover, and atmospheric change. Readers learn to interpret remote-sensing images and connect visible events to underlying Earth system processes.
Physical Geography: The Global Environment
A comprehensive textbook covering Earth's physical systems: climate, landforms, soils, biogeography, and water and energy cycles, with regional case studies used to explain how these processes shape environments worldwide.
physicalgeography.net
PhysicalGeography.net is an online learning resource offering concise tutorials, diagrams, and reference materials on core physical geography topics such as geomorphology, climatology, hydrology, soils, and biogeography.
Geosystems: An Introduction
A comprehensive introductory textbook covering physical geography through Earth's four systems: energy-atmosphere, water-weather-climate, the Earth-atmosphere interface, and soils, ecosystems, and biomes, teaching how landscapes and climate processes interact.
Physical Geography
A hands-on laboratory manual accompanying physical geography coursework, with self-contained exercises on landforms, weather, climate, and Earth systems that let students practice map reading, data analysis, and writing lab reports.