Student Learning Outcomes

• Identify how physical processes differ from place to place on the globe.
• Examine the physical forces and processes that operate within the natural environment.
• Describe common patterns of temperature and temperature inversions, high and low pressure, ocean and land winds, global winds, rain and desert patterns.
• Define geography as an integrative discipline using examples of the Earth’s four spheres.
• Students will evaluate the impact of science on their daily lives
• Apply geographical methodology in the interpretation of spatial relationships involving distance, area, and direction on the earth's surface.