Physical Geography: A Landscape AppreciationFor introductory Physical Geography courses. The only text to focus thematically on landscape appreciation, this best-seller fosters a solid understanding of Earth and its physical geography. Its clear, user-friendly writing style, superior art program, and abundant pedagogy appeal to a wide variety of students. This edition includes the newly revised and expanded Student Animations CD that helps students understand difficult physical processes. |
Contents
Introduction to Earth 9 The Hydrosphere | 1-1 |
The Size and Shape of Earth | 1-6 |
Earth Movements | 1-15 |
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adiabatic adiabatic lapse rate Africa air mass altitude animals anticyclonic Arctic ARCTIC OCEAN areas ATLANTIC OCEAN atmosphere Australia average basin bedrock biome carbon CD-ROM centimeters Circle climate clouds coast continents cool Coriolis effect cyclones desert distribution drainage Earth Earth's surface El Niño energy equator erosion Figure flow forest geographic glacier global heat humidity jet stream kilometers Lake land landscape lapse rate latitude layer lithosphere mass wasting meridian meters midlatitude miles moisture molecules monsoon mountain move movement North America Northern Hemisphere ozone PACIFIC OCEAN particles pattern percent plants polar Pole poleward precipitation pressure processes radiation rain regions relatively rising rock scale sea level season slope soil solar South Southern species storms subtropical summer temperature tion TLM photo Tropic of Cancer Tropic of Capricorn troposphere usually valley vegetation vertical volcanoes water vapor waves weather westerlies wind winter zone