2023-2024 Catalog and Student Handbook

GEOL 103 Physical Geography

Topics covered include spatial science and the geographer's mapping tools, the Earth's global energy balance, the oceans and atmosphere and their role in the Earth's climate and its weather systems, global climate change and its impact on society, earth materials emphasizing soils, and landforms made by volcanic, tectonic, weathering, mass wasting, running water, waves, wind, and glacial processes.

Credits

4

Distribution

Scientific Inquiry-w/Lab, Scientific Inquiry/Lab