Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - The Ever Changing Planet
About this title: Our planet is ever-changing. Earth's landforms are constantly being created and destroyed on timescales ranging from days to tens of millions of years. In this program Alec Murphy walks you through the forces shaping and destroying...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Portraying the Earth
About this title: Alec Murphy focuses on the history of portraying the Earth and the earliest maps of ancient Greece, the 21st century computer-based GIS, Geographical Information Systems. The program includes a visit to the U.S. Geological Survey, ...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Landforms
About this title: Landforms range in size from the continents themselves to the river valleys that most cities have developed around. In this program Alec Murphy categorizes and defines the major landforms found on the planet, including vast mountai...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Inventing the Tools of Geography
About this title: In this program Alec Murphy presents an historical narrative of the principles that form the foundation of geography. These include the three laws of geology, the importance of scale and the origins of the two great branches of geo...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Geographical Regions
About this title: Regions are one of the most important tools used in geographical thinking. In this program Alec Murphy shows how the planet is divided into physiographic regions, each with internal dynamic processes. Then he defines the three type...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Physical Geographic Influences on the Development of Human Societies
About this title: One of the great debates in geography has been: 'How much does place or physical geography determine human development - cultural and economic?' Using historical examples and present-day case histories, Alec Murphy guides you throu...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Human Impacts on the Natural Environment
About this title: Human beings have become a geographical force. In the 21st century human beings each year bring more change to the surface of the planet than all the natural forces combined. In this final program Alec Murphy presents an intriguing...
Physical Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Layering the Planet
About this title: Geography has found that Earth is organized into a sequence of spheres: the inner core, the crust or lithosphere, a soil layer, known as the pedosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and biosphere. Alec Murphy shows how they are ...