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    The physical geography in Switzerland plays a key role in the life of everyday citizens, from the climate, to the biome, to the significant landforms, to features that impact everyday life. Moving on to the mountainous terrain of Switzerland, where visitors see a climate that reacts to the elevation, the highlands, that brings lots of precipitation. This results in Switzerland gets 1000 to 1500 millimeters of precipitation a year. The elevation will affect the temperatures, the temperatures for the

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    How human geography and physical geography overlap The influence of natural environment of human activity are very huge. First of all, we have terrains. The influence of terrains on rural tribes is very apparent. Rivers in plain area is less, and the terrain is complete, open and flat. So the shape of the village assumes the circular or irregular polygon and more concentrated. However, in river less area, villages along the river or valley stretching and villages scattered and quite small

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    Physical geography: The physical geography of China has been divided by the government into 3 major physical regions including Eastern China (subdivided into the northeast plain, north plain, and southern hills), Xinjiang-Mongolia, and the Tibetan highlands. These regions are diverse with snow-capped mountains, deep river valleys, broad basins, high plateaus, rolling plains, terraced hills, sandy dunes with many other geographic features present in myriad variations. The land is high in altitude

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    Physical geography has a significant impact on the development of countries; hence the title, The Power of Place. Countries on the coast tend to do better than landlocked countries because they have more trade opportunities. Landlocked countries usually trade with their neighbors, but if their neighbors are also struggling economically, then both countries suffer from seclusion. However, sometimes the landlocked countries have well off neighbors which makes them more likely to do well. For example

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    How do physical geography and human geography overlap? NAME: Alva GRADE: 10X Maybe some people will think human geography has no relation between physical geography. But I think human geography has a great effect on physical geography, and physical geography has a great effect on human geography too. As an intellectual discipline, geography is divided into the sub-fields of physical geography and human geography, the latter concentrating upon the study of human activities, by the application of qualitative

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    Physical – 1. Description (What are some features you are noticing? What does it look like?) Physical maps show governmental boundaries, but also show the physical features, terrain and landforms, such as mountains, deserts, lakes, rivers, and forests. The map is shaded according to the landforms and type of terrain. 2. Purpose (What is it used for and who might use it-certain occupation, specific group etc?) The purpose of physical maps is to illustrate the landforms and physical features

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    Geography is the study of the physical features on Earth, it includes landscapes, people, places and environments. Geographic features can positively affect the development of civilizations. The civilizations that are impacted by the geographic features are ancient Greece and Egypt. Greece existed from 750 BCE to 600 CE in Europe and Egypt existed from 2575 to 332 BCE in Africa. The geographic features of seas and rivers positively affected the development of ancient Greece and Egypt. Geography

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    Physical geography is the various physical mechanisms and natural developments that create the structures of Earth. The physical geography of places vary because of the natural components they consist of such as their latitude, soil, water, earth structures, and much more. I will describe a general overview of Brownsville, TX’s physical geography; how the physical geography affects the weather and climate of Brownsville, TX; how the latitude affects the daylight hours, seasons, and etc.; the soils

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    Impact of Physical Geography and Development:     Physical geography plays a significant part in the development and success of different people and countries. A country's location can greatly affect how that country does economically. For example, country’s near water typically do better economically than landlocked because water unlocks more trade opportunities. However, some landlocked countries can still do well because of it’s neighboring countries that may be located near water. Another example

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    Physical Geography, in many ways impact what humans do. Multiple states do things similarly and differently because of the physical environment. China and India and Pakistan similarly have a high population density near rivers and have a higher economy due to their physical location; however, they contrast because India and Pakistan use bodies of water for politics, while China uses bodies of water for economic advantages.     India similarly has high population rates near rivers to China. The book

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