This course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the Earth’s physical environment from the atmosphere to the lithosphere through a physical geography perspective by examining the processes that create this environment.  By successfully completing this course, students will have an appreciation for the Earth’s natur4al systems of weather, climate, geologic structures, and topography.  Topics covered in this course are: definition of geomorphology, earth movements, and both endogenic (folding, faulting, vulcanicity, and earthquakes) and exogenic (weathering, mass wasting, hydrological cycle, rivers and river systems, oceans and seas, wave action, types of coasts, action of water in limestone areas, action of wind and water in arid areas, glaciations, and lakes) processes.  Also covered is definition and scope of biogeography, soil, plant and animal communities, and plant and animal communities in Kenya, uses and potential of the ecological zones in Kenya, and management and conservation of plants and animal, definition of weather, climate, and climatology, scope of climatology, structure of the atmosphere, elements of weather, weather forecasting, and climate.  Field visits will be arranged as required.