INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

 GEOGRAPHY

 FALL 2009

 INSTRUCTOR:  JUDD CURRAN

 (619)644-7343

 judd.curran@gcccd.edu

Curriculum Vitae  

"The unity of all the sciences is found in geography. The significance of geography is that it presents the earth as the enduring home of the occupations of man. The world without its relationship to human activity is less than a world. Human industry and achievement, apart from their roots in the earth, are not even a sentiment, hardly a name"

John Dewey
(1859-1952)

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CLASS SYLLABUS

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Class Textbook
2nd Edition

3rd Edition

"Physical Geography-

Science and Systems

of the Human Environment"

by Alan and Arthur Strahler

__LOCAL EVENTS___

Death Valley Flood
of August 2004

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Wildfires of San Diego
October 2007

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2005 Desert
Wildflowers
Pictures By Robert Meyers

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Hundreds of Thousands of
Fish in the Salton Sea Die
February 2007

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Satellite Imagery of Environmental Change

Click on image to visit "Earthshots"
by USGS

The periodic
table of elements

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Google Earth on your
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The Weather Calculator

National Weather Service
San Diego

The
Hydrometeorological
Prediction
Center

Great Weather Maps

CA Geography Links

Farallon
Subduction

THIS WEEK IN GEOGRAPHY 120

 

THE CLIMATE SYSTEM

World Climate

How Do I Read a Climograph?

Interpreting Data on a Climograph

Koppen Map

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION

Significance of Evapotranspiration

Evapotranspiration Maps for Australia

CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION 

Climate Classification

CLIMATE DISTRIBUTION

Watch this Video!!
"The Earth Revealed:  Wind, Dust, and Deserts"
An educational video by the Annenberg Project
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Climate Regions of the World with Climatographs
Note:  The Climographs in the above listed website are displayed in units of millimeters of precipitation
and celsius temperature.  The following is a conversion of that scale to
inches of precipitation and  fahrenheit temperature:

The following table is a list of conversions from mm to inches of precipitation and from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Precipitation Conversion                                               Temperature Conversion mm        =       inches                                                   C             =           F 1000                 39.37                                                   40                       104 900                   35.43                                                   30                        86 800                   31.50                                                   20                        68 700                   27.56                                                   10                        50 600                   23.62                                                    0                         32 500                   19.69                                                  -10                        14 400                   15.75                                                  -20                       -04 300                   11.81                                                  -30                       -22 200                     7.87                                                  -40                       -40 100                     3.94

How do climate models work?

 

THE BIOSPHERE

ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS

Photosynthesis

What is Photosynthesis?

CLIMATE-VEGETATION INTERACTIONS

Biomes

The Carbon Cycle

The Nitrogen Cycle

The Oxygen Cycle

The Hydrologic Cycle

	TUNDRA
	BOREAL FOREST or TAIGA
	TEMPERATE BROADLEAF DECIDUOUS FOREST
	TROPICAL BROADLEAF EVERGREEN FOREST
	TROPICAL SAVANNA
	DESERTSCRUB
	TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS
	MEDITERRANEAN SCRUB
	Table from Susan L. Woodward of Radford University Department of Geography

Boreal Forest in North America

Terrestrial Ecosystems of the World
An Extensive List by National Geographic

 

CALIFORNIA PLANT DATABASE

Jumping Cholla stuck to Geog 150 student's foot

Why Are We Losing
Our Biodiversity?

 

 

 

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Tuesday November 17, 2009 11:22 PM