Synopses & Reviews
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 students. This new edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, technology, the latest applied science, and new pedagogy, providing essential tools and opportunities to teach and engage students in these processes and patterns.
0321950690 / 9780321950697 MCKNIGHT'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY: A LANDSCAPE APPRECIATION & LAB MANUAL, 11/E Package
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0321820436 / 9780321820433 McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 11/e
0321678362 / 9780321678362 Physical Geography Laboratory Manual (Valuepack Item)
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This package contains the following components:
-032167734X: McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation
-0321678362: Physical Geography Laboratory Manual
Table of Contents
Exercise 1 Metric Conversions
Exercise 2 Location
Exercise 3 Time
Exercise 4 Map Scale
Exercise 5 Map Projections
Exercise 6 Isolines
Exercise 7 Earth-Sun Relations
Exercise 8 Solar Angle
Exercise 9 Insolation
Exercise 10 Temperature Patterns
Exercise 11 Air Pressure
Exercise 12 Wind
Exercise 13 Humidity
Exercise 14 Adiabatic Processes
Exercise 15 Stability
Exercise 16 Midlatitude Cyclones
Exercise 17 Weather Maps
Exercise 18 Weather Satellite Images
Exercise 19 Doppler Radar
Exercise 20 Hurricanes
Exercise 21 Climate Classification
Exercise 22 Weather Variability and Climate Change
Exercise 23 Biome Distribution and Climate
Exercise 24 Contour Lines
Exercise 25 U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps
Exercise 26 Topographic Profiles
Exercise 27 U.S. Public Land Survey System
Exercise 28 Stereo Aerial Photographs
Exercise 29 Landform Analysis with Google Earth™ & the National Map
Exercise 30 Plate Tectonics
Exercise 31 Volcanoes
Exercise 32 Volcanic Calderas
Exercise 33 Faulting
Exercise 34 The San Andreas Fault
Exercise 35 Mass Wasting
Exercise 36 Drainage Basins
Exercise 37 Floodplains
Exercise 38 Stream Drainage Patterns
Exercise 39 Stream Rejuvenation
Exercise 40 Flood Recurrence Intervals
Exercise 41 Karst Topography
Exercise 42 Desert Landforms
Exercise 43 Sand Dunes
Exercise 44 Continental Glaciation
Exercise 45 Alpine Glaciation
Exercise 46 Coastal Landforms