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Synopsis
For courses in Physical Geography. Explore the changing global environment with real-world examples and mobile field trips
Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darrel Hess offers a broad survey of all of the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earth s physical landscape.
McKnight s Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation provides a clear writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy to appeal to a wide variety of readers.
The
Twelfth Edition offers a truly meaningful integration ofvisualization, technology, and the latest applied science, providing essential opportunities to teach and engage readers in these processes and patterns. Topics that are tied to readers real-world concerns such as global environmental change, along with new videos, photography, online lab resources, and updated interactive tools, make it the most effective learning program for physical geography.
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Synopsis
Continuing Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus on landscape appreciation, Darrel Hess offers a broad survey of all of the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earth's physical landscape.
McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation provides a clear writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy to appeal to a wide variety of readers.
The
Twelfth Edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, technology, and the latest applied science, providing essential opportunities to engage readers in these processes and patterns. Topics that are tied to readers' real-world concerns such as global environmental change, along with new videos, photography, online lab resources, and updated interactive tools, make it the most effective learning program for physical geography.
KEY TOPICS: Introduction to Earth; Portraying Earth; Introduction to the Atmosphere; Insolation and Temperature; Atmospheric Pressure and Wind; Atmospheric Moisture; Atmospheric Disturbances; Climate and Climate Change; The Hydrosphere; Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere; Terrestrial Flora and Fauna; Soils; Introduction to Landform Study; The Internal Processes; Weathering and Mass Wasting; Fluvial Processes; Karst and Hydrothermal Processes; The Topography of Arid Lands; Glacial Modification of Terrain; Coastal Processes and Terrain
MARKET: For any reader interested in learning about the physical processes and spatial patterns that create Earth's physical landscape.