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Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast, episode 87, the Geography of Earth.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

Now, in this episode, we are going to look at some of the major geographical features and aspects of the planet Earth.

This episode, in a sense, is going to serve as an introduction to a future series of

episodes that I'm going to do covering other aspects of geography, including climate systems,

weather and the atmosphere and so forth. But in this episode, what I want to do is sort of set

the groundwork by talking about some major aspects of the geographic features of Earth.

What we'll look at in this episode will include,

I'll talk a bit about the continents and the concept of a continent.

I'll talk about geographic zones and climactic zones,

and I'll talk about some of the major mountain systems and river systems on Earth

to sort of set a bit of a landscape for the types of features that are relevant for study of the planet Earth.

And then we'll conclude by talking about some of the major biomes found throughout Earth.

These are basically areas with common flora and fauna and similar climates.

So this episode will be largely descriptive, that is, we'll describe a lot of features of the Earth

rather than explain why they are that way.

In future episodes, when we look at some of the more underlying processes, we'll talk about

some of the reasons why things are this way.

But I thought it would be good to set up the stage, so to speak,

with just a sort of a descriptive introduction of the geography of Earth. So obviously, this is a large

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