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Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge and magnetism, not originating from civilized human actions. In contrast to the natural environment is the built environment.
The branch bridges the divide between human and physical geography and thus requires an understanding of the dynamics of geology, meteorology, hydrology, biogeography, and geomorphology, as well as the ways in which human societies conceptualize the environment.
Mineralogic phenomena; Lithologic phenomena . Rock types. Igneous rock. Igneous formation processes; Sedimentary rock. Sedimentary formation processes (sedimentation); Quicksand ...
Marine ecosystems are characterized by the biological community of organisms that they are associated with and their physical environment. Classes of organisms found in marine ecosystems include brown algae, dinoflagellates, corals, cephalopods, echinoderms, and sharks.
Environment "includes the physical world, the social world of human relations and the built world of human creation." [171]: 62 The physical environment is external to the level of biological organization under investigation, including abiotic factors such as temperature, radiation, light, chemistry, climate and geology.
Physical geography examines the natural environment and how organisms, climate, soil, water, and landforms produce and interact. [25] The difference between these approaches led to the development of integrated geography , which combines physical and human geography and concerns the interactions between the environment and humans. [ 21 ]
An ecosystem (or ecological system) consists of all the organisms and the abiotic pools (or physical environment) with which they interact. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] : 5 [ 2 ] : 458 The biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows.
Landscape archaeology or landscape history is the study of the way in which humanity has changed the physical appearance of the environment - both present and past. Landscape generally refers to both natural environments and environments constructed by human beings. [ 31 ]