physiography
noun
the science of physical geography.
physiographic
-
a word derived from
physiography.
Example Sentences
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This region now has the highest density of parks and monuments of any physiographic province in the country.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2019
The physiographic force which had caused the Troy plain, and others like it, was the beaver.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pure theorist takes for granted the physiographic environment, whose influence Giddings takes into account.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
The first half of the eighteenth century witnessed the movement of settlement into the next great physiographic region, the Piedmont, or the area lying between the Fall Line and the Appalachian Mountains.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
This study is concerned primarily with mice from Wyoming and Colorado; I realize, however, that the physiographic and ecological conditions important to the distribution and subspeciation of Microtus pennsylvanicus do not correspond to political boundaries.
From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in Wyoming, Colorado, and Adjacent Areas by Sydney Anderson
