KGG/QCZR Geography of the Czech Republic

Lecturer: Ondřej Král
Lecture: 2 hours/week + seminar 1 hour/week
Credits: 5
Winter semester
Form of course completion: exam

Lectures are concerned with following themes: Geographical-political position of the Czech Republic, historical-geographical development of Czech lands, geological development and geological structure of the Czech Massif and the Carpathians; deposits and mining of mineral resources; geomorphologic development and geomorphologic division of CR; basic landform types; basic characteristics of geomorphologic units of provinces Czech Highland, Western Carpathians, Central European lowland and Western Panonian basin; hydrologic conditions; climatic conditions of CR and air pollution; pedogeographic and biogeographic conditions of CR; categories of protected areas; public administration and its development; population and settlement structure; industry and its branch structure.