This best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography through clear, user-friendly writing and a superior art program that appeals to a wide variety of students. This Edition includes the newly revised and expanded Geography Animations CD that helps readers understand difficult physical processes. This book covers a variety of topics to help readers foster an appreciation of the physical world, including the atmosphere, climate, soils, erosion, terrestrial flora and fauna, topography, coastal processes, and more. For individuals interested gaining an appreciation of geography by learning about the world around them.
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Written from a landscape appreciation point of view, but is now balanced by greater focus on Earth processes that underlie the landscape. Illustrations have been completely revised to increase quantity, quality, and utility. The written text has been tightened so that despite a twenty percent increase in the number of illustrations, the text remains the same length.
The only text to focus thematically on landscape appreciation, this best-selling text fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. The text's clear, user-friendly writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy appeal to a wide variety of readers. The Virtual Fieldtrip edition is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing virtual fieldtrips to some of the most geographically interesting places in North America. Coverage of Earth; Atmosphere; Insulation; Temperature; Atmospheric Pressure; Biosphere; Soils; Erosion; and much more. Virtual trips include: Alpine Glacier and Tundra, Geothermal, River Systems Features, Great Salt Lake/Basin and Range, Shorelines, Wetlands, Tectonics, Volcanics, Great Coastal Redwoods, and Landuse. For readers interested in an introduction to physical geography.
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