physical geography

1. 1.

   the study of physical features of the earth's surface

   Synonymsphysiography

   Broadergeography

Questions about physical geography

What does physical geography mean?

physical geography means "the study of physical features of the earth's surface".

What is another word for physical geography?

Close synonyms include physiography. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is physical geography a common word?

physical geography is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.