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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY It will consist of three sections A, B and C. You will be required to answer …
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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
It will consist of three sections A, B and C. You will be required to answer only four questions. Section A is compulsory and will have two compulsory questions, one on map work and another on photographic interpretation. You will also answer at least one question from section B and one from section C.
COURSE OUTLINE
SECTION A- Map work
- Photograph interpretation
- Introduction of physical geography
- The structure of the earth
- The origin of continents and ocean basins
- Rocks
- Weathering and slope development
- Mass wasting
- Tectonism
- Glaciation
- Lakes
- Rivers and lake systems
- Coastal geomorphology
- Vegetation
- Climatology and meteorology
- Soils
Course Currilcum
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- GEO1/6: CLIMATOLOGY AND METEOROLOGY Details 1 year
- Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation.
- GEO1/6: ELEMENTS OF CLIMATE Details 1 year
- Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation.
- GEO1/6: OCEAN CURRENTS Details 1 year
- In this Unit, you are going to learn about causes of ocean currents, characteristics of ocean currents, and effects of ocean currents on climate and human activities.
- GEO1/6: RAINFALL AND WIND Details 1 year
- Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation.
- GEO1/6: MAP WORK Details 1 year
- MAP WORK INVOLVES THREE MAIN ASPECTS ie Map Reading: This involves the recognition of natural and man-made features and their spatial relationships on the map. Map interpretation: This is concerned not only with the recognition but also with the assessment of their significance. Map analysis: This includes all aspects of reading and interpretation but proceeds to evaluate the interrelationships of features represented by the map in preparation for their classification and assessment.
- GEO1/6: PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION Details 1 year
- PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION Photographic interpretation refers to the identification of geographical features both natural and man made and their interrelationships as shown on a given photograph of a given area.
ASSIGNMENT 1 ON CLIMATE 2, 00:00 ASSIGNMENT 2 ON CLIMATE 2, 00:00 ASSIGNMENT 3 ON CLIMATE 2, 00:00 ASSIGNMENT ON OCEAN CURRENTS 3, 00:00 ASSIGNMENT 4 ON CLIMATE 3, 00:00 ASSIGNMENT ONE ON MAP WORK 300:05 ASSIGNMENT TWO ON MAP WORK 150:02 ASSIGNMENT THREE ON MAP WORK 150:02 GEO1/5: Assignment on Photographic interpretation 450:07 -
- GEO1/6: RIVERS AND RIVER SYSTEMS Details 1 year
- This unit covers content about fulscope river development and its associated features/ landforms and how rivers impact economic development.
- GEO1/6: DELTAS AND RIVER CAPTURE Details 1 year
- This is the process which part of the river course diverts into another system of a river that is adjacent to it. This river has high erosive pore and its ability to erode its valley more rapidly on its neighboring river. Rivers captures another is called a pirate river or a capturing stream and the captured stream is known as the beheaded stream.
- GEO1/6: DRAINAGE PATTERNS Details 1 year
- This unit is Drainage patterns which is plan layout made by a River and its tributes.
- GEO1/6: SOIL Details 1 year
- Soil is a material composed of five ingredients — minerals, soil organic matter, living organisms, gas, and water. Soil minerals are divided into three size classes — clay, silt, and sand; the percentages of particles in these size classes is called soil texture.
- GEO1/6: CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL Details 1 year
- Soil classification deals with the systematic categorization of soils based on distinguishing characteristics as well as criteria that dictate choices in use.
- GEO1/6: COASTAL GEOMOPHOLOGY Details 1 year
- Coastal geomorphology is a branch of geomorphology in which the focus is on the area influenced by large bodies of water, including seas and oceans, and large lakes. Coastal landforms, any of the relief features present along any coast, the result of a combination of processes, sediments, and the geology of the coast itself. A coast is a strip of land that meets an ocean or sea. ... Coasts have many different features, such as caves and cliffs, beaches and mudflats. Tides, waves, and water currents (flow) shape the land to form these coastal features.
- GEO1/6: WAVE EROSIONAL LANDFORMS Details 06:05:00
- Landforms of coastal erosion include cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks, stumps, and headlands, amongst others. There are also depositional landforms such as beaches, spits and bars.
- GEO1/6: WAVE DEPOSITIONAL LANDFORMS Details 1 year
- Landforms of coastal erosion include cliffs, wave-cut platforms, caves, arches, stacks, stumps, and headlands, amongst others. There are also depositional landforms such as beaches, spits and bars.
- GEO1/6: SEA LEVEL CHANGES Details 1 year
- Sea level changes refer to relative movements in the level of water in the sea, Ocean, lakes relative to the adjacent land. When the sea level changes on a worldwide, it's known as eustatism or an eustatic change. Water in the sea is never constant.
- GEO1/6: CORAL REEF LANDFORMS Details 1 year
- Coral reef is a lime stone rock type formed by continued deposition accumulation and cementation of skeletons of dead marine organisms known as coral polyps
