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Relation of physical geography to other branches of sciences.
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- Physical Geography includes the study of landforms, drainage, relief, slope (lithosphere) structure, weather and climate, winds, precipitation, climate types (atmosphere), oceans, seas, lakes, rivers (hydrosphere) and life forms including human being and macro-organism, ecosystem, food chain, ecological balance (biosphere). Thus, every discipline under natural science is linked with Geography.
- Geology, Meteorology, Hydrology and Pedology are linked with the fields of Physical Geography such as Geomorphology, Climatology, Oceanography and Geography of Soils, respectively.
- Similarly, knowledge of Mathematics is essential for cartographic techniques. Drawing of maps and diagrams requires understanding of Mathematics.
- To do data analysis, geographers use various statistical techniques and hypotheses testing.
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