Geofactor

Geofactors are the natural geographic conditions that determine the physiognomy of a landscape, including geological, climatic, hydrogeographic conditions, soils, vegetation, but also human-made facts.

In research, geofactors are differentiated according to inorganic and organic origin.

The inorganic geofactors include e.g. B. Relief, soil, atmosphere and water, to the organic flora and fauna and as a subgroup the spirit-determined geofactors such as humanity, society, people and their works.

Depending on the proportion of spirit-determined factors, a distinction is made between natural landscape (none or few) and cultural landscape (predominantly).

See also

• physical geography
• Human geography

Web links

• Geofactor. In: Spectrum Lexicon of Geography.
• Geofactor. In: Spectrum Lexicon of Geosciences.