关键词: 地球表层学, 全球地理学, 综合地理学, 建设地理学, 全息地理学, 理论地理学

Abstract: There are seven development tendencies in modern geography relating to physical geography.1. The field of territorial research in integrated physical geography has extended from regionalization at top level to the study of land types locality at low level.2. With the expanding in research field from the grassroot, the integrated physical geography research has reached the study of earth surface (epigeosphere science)-analogous to global geography.3. Aiming at regional exploitation, it urns into integrated geography.4. Bending toword application, the constructive geography-applied research of integrated geography has appeared.5. A. the research field extends from the study of interrelations of components of a region to interrelations of territorial structures, Hologeography was formed.6. Priority of regional study gives way to theoretical study and thus appears theoetical geography.7. The research field of geography has extended from the theory in geography itself to metatheory-metageogrtaphy.

Key words: Epigeosphere, Globular geography, Integrated geography, Constructive geography, Hologeography, Theoretical geography