Interactions with the Physical Environment Exploring Connections: landforms, geology and human activities

How do different landforms and geologic processes contribute to where and how people live? To answer this we need to know: What landforms are What geologic processes mean

Patterns and Processes Four interrelated aspects of physical geography - landforms, climate, natural vegetation and soils They affect where people live and work in Canada There are patterns that exist in each of the aspects but it is important to know the processes that case the patterns

Physical Geographic Aspects Which do you think has the biggest impact on where people live? landforms, climate, natural vegetation soils

Landform Processes Let’s think about British Columbia to start this topic Coastal (west coast BC) British Columbia is beautiful (it has the mildest climate) You can ski, golf and sail all in the same day However, not everything is so wonderful: average house in Vancouver costs $1 million dollars Also there is a very serious risk of something happening….

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