GEOG 252 — INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
To assist students to acquire a clear understanding of selected processes in the atmosphere of the world’s major climates and the interaction between them and various land forms. Specific topics include climatic elements and control factors affecting temperature, atmospheric pressure and precipitation processes; formation of rainfall and raindrop; tropical meteorology and the study of synoptic charts; processes of soil formation; the soil profiles; Soils of Ghana; classification of plant communities; energy flow in the ecosystem; the hydrological, nitrogen and carbon cycles and the role of climate in the biotic complex/ecosystem.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
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- GEOG 253 — THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GEOGRAPHY I
- GEOG 254 — THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GEOGRAPHY II
- GEOG 255 — PRINCIPLES OF CARTOGRAPHY
- GEOG 256 — MAP INTERPRETATION AND FUNDAMENTALS OF SURVEYING
- CS 451 — INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION OF SOIL SCIENCE
- CSM 183 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS I (122)
- CSM 184 — INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS II
- ENGL 157 — Communication Skills I
- ENGL 158 — Communication Skills II
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