GEOG 1112K: Introduction to Weather and Climate

4 Credit Hours

Components of weather processes, and their measurement. Climatic elements and their control factors. Geographic classification of climatic and vegetative types on the Earth’s surface. The lab focuses on practical and applied aspects of these environmental systems and evidence-based research. Lab work includes map reading, data collection, and data analysis.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Recognize (visually, mathematically, by writing) the fundamental concepts, patterns, and processes of weather and climate.
Explain the relationships between the Sun and the Earth and the impacts both have on weather, climate, and biogeography.
Describe and deduce how the natural world functions at various global and regional scales and identify the scale-dependent spatial patterns.
Read, understand, and interpret the physical features on maps and related imagery.
Articulate the interrelationships between the atmosphere and human activities.