Physical Geography - Weekly Audio Podcasts
Week 1
1. Prelude – what to expect and useful resources
2. Chapter 1 – our solar systems and beyond
3. Chapter 1 – geographic concepts
4. Chapter 1 – rotations to parallelism
5. Chapter 1 – seasons, solstices to analemma
Week 2
6. Chapter 2 – portraying Earth – map essentials & projections
7. Chapter 2 – township & range - other grid systems
8. Chapter 2 – Modern Mapping – remote sensing
9. Chapter 2 – Modern Mapping – remote sensing to GIS
10. Chapter 3 – The Atmosphere – importance to layers
11. Chapter 3 – Weather and Climate – insolation to precipitation
Week 3
12. Chapter 3 – Controls of Weather and Climate – to ocean currents
13. Chapter 3 – winds to topographic barriers
14. Chapter 3 – pressure belts to storms
15. Chapter 3 – fact or fiction quiz / review
16. Chapter 3 – Weather and Climate using case studies / climographs
Week 4
17. Chapter 4 – Insolation and Temperature – preliminary questions
18. Chapter 4 – radiation, conduction, convection, latent heat of condensation
19. Chapter 4 – latent heat of condensation
20. Chapter 4 – heating of the atmosphere to climate change (global warming)
21. Chapter 4 – review of importance of latent heat of condensation to lapse rates
22. Chapter 4 – normal versus dry adiabatic lapse rates
23. Chapter 4 – inversions
24. Chapter 4 – hints for - Lapse Rate Exercise
25. Chapter 4 – Lapse Rate Examples
Week 5
26. Chapter 5 - Introduction to Pressure and Wind
27. Chapter 5 - Pressure, Aviation & Winds - some common examples of pressure
28. Chapter 5 - Wind Circulation / Coriolis Effect
Week 6
29. Chapter 5 - Wind Circulation / Global Belt Introduction
30. Chapter 5 - Three (3) questions / What causes the Trades & Westerlies...
31. Chapter 5 - Global Belt - Trades & Westerlies
Week 7
32. Chapter 5 - Global Belt - Polar Winds
33. Chapter 5 - Monsoons & Local Winds -
34. Chapter 5 - Katabatic and Foehn Winds
35. Chapter 8 - Tropical Climates
Week 8
36. Chapter 8 - Koppen Climate System
37. Chapter 8 - Desert Climate Intro & Causes
38. Chapter 8 - Dry (B) Desert Climates
39. Chapter 8 - Temperate (C) Climates
Week 9
40. Chapter 8 - Review Climates ABC
41. Chapter 8 - Severe (D) Climates
42. Chapter 8 - Highland & Polar (E) climates
Week 10
43. Chapter 13 - Landforms - Geomorphology
44. Chapter 13 - Earth's Interior Layers
45. Chapter 13 - Igneous Rocks
Week 11
46. Chapter 13 - Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks
47. Chapter 14 - Plate Tectonics (accidentally interrupted)
48. Chapter 14 - Plate Tectonics continued - evidence
49. Chapter 14 - Plate Cause & Movement
Week 12
50. Chapter 14 - Lithospheric Plate Boundaries
51. Chapter 14 - Subduction and Accretion
52. Chapter 14 - Introduction to Volcanoes
53. Chapter 14 - Lava Types - Basalt
54. Chapter 14 - Lava Flows - Explosive
55. Chapter 14 - Composite Volcanoes and Pyroclastic Flows
56. Chapter 14 - Volcanic Landform Review
Week 13
57. Chapter 14 - Volcanic Landforms continued
58. Chapter 14 - Volcanic Landforms Remnants
59. Chapter 14 - Plutonic Landforms
60. Chapter 14 - Tilted Layers
61. Chapter 14 - Isostatic Rebound
62. Chapter 15 - Weathering and Mass Wasting (assignment hints)
(You might want to listen to this podcast before you complete this assignment)
63. Chapter 14 - Folded Mountains (back to Chapter 14 lecture)
64. Chapter 14 - Faulted Mountains
Week 14
65. Chapter 14 - Fault-block features
66. Chapter 14 - Faulted Features - Horst & Graben
67. Chapter 16 - Fluvial - Introduction
68. Chapter 16 - Erosion by Streamflow
69. Chapter 16 - Fluvial - Attrition & Transportation
70. Chapter 16 - Degrading Streams
Week 15
71. Chapter 16 - Meandering Streams - Upper Reaches
72. Chapter 16 - Lower Reaches
73. Chapter 16 - Levees
74. Chapter 16 - Deltas & Rejuvenated
75. Chapter 18 - Desert Terms 1
76. Chapter 18 - Desert Terms 2
77. Review 13 and 14 Review