An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
PHYSIOGRAPHY
Etymology
Noun
physiography (countable and uncountable, plural physiographies)
(geography) The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretical part.
Synonyms
• geosystems, physical geography
Source: Wiktionary
Phys`i*og"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy: cf. F. physiographie.]
Definition: The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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