Geography & Atmospheric Sciences

• NEW - Virtual Field Trips v. 2.0—These popular field trips continue to offer students a chance to tour some of the most geographically interesting places on Earth. Version 2.0 represents a thorough upgrade and expansion of Virtual Field Trips 1.0. These virtual field trips are useful for classroom presentation, computer lab sections, or out-of-class assignments. Specific enhancements featured in version 2.0 include:

  • Every chapter of the book is now accompanied by a virtual field trip.

  • Software navigation has been dramatically enhanced for easier understanding and use.

  • The field trips feature a new emphasis on data collection, interpretation and reporting.

  • Students are offered more specific instruction for completing the field trips and reporting their results than they were in version 1.0.

  • Integration of the field trips with the text has been enhanced by featuring more graphics from the book in the field trips themselves.

  • The field trips now run on both Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 4.75.

• Companion Website—Designed as an on-line study guide and tied chapter by chapter to the text at www.prenhall.com/mcknight.

  • Students' answers are self-graded and can be e-mailed to instructors. The site also provides additional links to interesting, relevant sites on the Web to encourage student exploration.

• NEW - Digital Image Gallery for Interactive Teaching CD-ROM (DIGIT)—Provides high-quality electronic versions of photos and illustrations from the book, as well as additional photographs, animations, and videos, for easy importation into lecture presentation software, such as PowerPoint or Astound. Images are 32-bit, low compression JPEG files. To further guarantee classroom projection quality, all images are manually adjusted for color, brightness, and contrast.

• NEW - Course Management options for Web-based learning—WebCT, Blackboard, and/or CourseCompass.

  • Professors can utilize Prentice Hall's content—including test questions, Web links, and practice problems—with any of the above course management systems to design their own online course. Even instructors with little or no technical experience can use a point-and-click navigation system to set up course calendars, quizzes, lectures, and self-paced study help. Instructors can go to www.prenhall.com/demo to find out which course management system would be most beneficial.

• NEW - Updated and improved coverage of soils and global climate change.

  • Provides students with the most up-to-date information in the field.

• NEW - Updated graphics—An excellent cartographic and illustration program, including hundreds of maps with shaded relief where appropriate, line illustrations with numerous multi-part illustrations that capture sequence and evolution to help students understand process, and major photos paired with locator maps to heighten basic geographic literacy.

  • Helps students view process and enables them to view Earth's features from multiple perspectives to further enhance their understanding.

• Retains Tom L. McKnight's well-known focus on landscape appreciation.

  • Helps students gain an appreciation of geography by heightening their understanding of the world around them.

• Strong emphasis on chapter pedagogy—Every chapter includes chapter summaries, review questions, and key terms lists.

  • Helps students pick out important points to more efficiently and effectively learn the material.

• Study guide—Authored by experienced educator Darrel Hess of San Francisco City College—Available for students.

• Virtual Field Trips v. 2.0—These popular field trips continue to offer students a chance to tour some of the most geographically interesting places on Earth. Version 2.0 represents a thorough upgrade and expansion of Virtual Field Trips 1.0. These virtual field trips are useful for classroom presentation, computer lab sections, or out-of-class assignments. Specific enhancements featured in version 2.0 include:

  • Every chapter of the book is now accompanied by a virtual field trip.

  • Software navigation has been dramatically enhanced for easier understanding and use.

  • The field trips feature a new emphasis on data collection, interpretation and reporting.

  • Students are offered more specific instruction for completing the field trips and reporting their results than they were in version 1.0.

  • Integration of the field trips with the text has been enhanced by featuring more graphics from the book in the field trips themselves.

  • The field trips now run on both Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 4.75.

• Digital Image Gallery for Interactive Teaching CD-ROM (DIGIT)—Provides high-quality electronic versions of photos and illustrations from the book, as well as additional photographs, animations, and videos, for easy importation into lecture presentation software, such as PowerPoint or Astound. Images are 32-bit, low compression JPEG files. To further guarantee classroom projection quality, all images are manually adjusted for color, brightness, and contrast.

• Course Management options for Web-based learning—WebCT, Blackboard, and/or CourseCompass.

  • Professors can utilize Prentice Hall's content—including test questions, Web links, and practice problems—with any of the above course management systems to design their own online course. Even instructors with little or no technical experience can use a point-and-click navigation system to set up course calendars, quizzes, lectures, and self-paced study help. Instructors can go to www.prenhall.com/demo to find out which course management system would be most beneficial.

• Updated and improved coverage of soils and global climate change.

  • Provides students with the most up-to-date information in the field.

• Updated graphics—An excellent cartographic and illustration program, including hundreds of maps with shaded relief where appropriate, line illustrations with numerous multi-part illustrations that capture sequence and evolution to help students understand process, and major photos paired with locator maps to heighten basic geographic literacy.

  • Helps students view process and enables them to view Earth's features from multiple perspectives to further enhance their understanding.

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with a Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Review Questions, and Some Useful References.)

1. Introduction to Earth.

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