Student Learning Outcomes

• Locate major physical features of Earth on a series of world maps.
• Distinguish between internal, mountain-building processes and external, landform-shaping processes.
• Examine the physical forces and processes which operate within the natural environment.
• Recognize and identify how human and physical processes differ from place to place.
• Apply geographical methodology in the interpretation of spatial relationships involving distance, area and direction on the Earth’s surface.
• Define geography as an integrative discipline using examples of the Earth’s four spheres.
• Describe common patterns of temperature and temperature inversions, high and low pressure, ocean and land winds, global winds, rain and desert patterns.
• Compare and correlate the Earth’s major climates and biomes.