Geography studies the worldthe land and its features and the people who live here. Geography has many branches, each focusing on a different aspect. Biogeography looks at the biodiversity of species, where and when different species have lived, and why. Geomorphology studies landforms and how they are shaped. Human geography examines the interactions of people and cultures in various ways. The study of geography is useful in many ways, including the predicting of earthquakes or landslides, extrapolating the effects of events such as natural disasters or climate change on landscapes and human populations, and determining the changes occurring in the world's cultural landscapes.Selected Contents: Bacteriological Assessment of Urban Water Sources; Microbial Sulfate Reduction and Metal Attenuation; Association Between Drinking Water Turbidity and Gastrointestinal Illness; Evaluation of The Webler-Brown Model for Estimating Tetrachloroethylene Exposure from Vinyl-Lined Asbestos-Cement Pipes; Mass Stranding of Marine Birds; Measuring Variability in Trophic Status; Contamination of Rural Surface and Ground Water; Prospective Study of Rural Drinking Water Quality and Acute Gastrointestinal Illness; Environmental Sanitation Crisis...
| ISBN-13: | 9781926692135 |
| ISBN-10: | 1926692136 |
| Publisher: | Apple Academic Press |
| Publication date: | 2010 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Author: | Foreman Hughs, Lawrence Oyedeji |
| Language: | ar |
| Binding: | Hardcover |