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Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 8/E
Tom L. McKnight, University of California, Los Angeles
Darrel Hess, City College of San Francisco

ISBN-10: 0131451391
ISBN-13: 9780131451391

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 640 pp
Published: 06/08/2004

This item has been replaced by Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 9/E.

For 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.

Instructor Resource Center on CD-ROM (IRC): Everything you need where you want it. The Prentice Hall Instructor Resource Center makes you more effective, and saves you time and effort. Find all your digital resources in one, well-organized, easy-to-access place. The IRC on CD includes:
- Figures: JPEGs of all illustrations and select photos from the text.
- Animations: all of the animations are ready for use in your lecture presentation as PPT slides or Flash files.
- PowerPointT: Pre-authored slides outline the concepts of each chapter with embedded art and can be used as is for your lecture, or customize them to fit your lecture presentation needs.
- TestGen: The TestGen-EQ software, questions, and answers.
- PRS questions in PowerPointTM
- Electronic files of the Instructor's Manual and Test Item File
- Links to Companion Website, Research NavigatorTM, WebCT, BlackBoard, and Course Compass, and their test question cartridges

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. Page 401: "Bathymetry of Crater Lake", Pages 530-1: "Glacier Development"
- Helps students view process and enables them to view Earth's features from multiple perspectives to further enhance their understanding.

Tom L. McKnight's well-known focus on landscape appreciation. Pages 500-3: "Desert Landform Assemblages"

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.

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.
- Provides students with additional links to interesting, relevant sites on the Web to encourage further exploration.

NEW - Revised and expanded Student Animations CD: Included with every copy of the book, this CD contains 42 animations that illustrate the most important and challenging concepts for an introductory college physical geography class. This CD contains 13 new animations, including El Nino, Monthly Tidal Cycle, Wave Motion and Wave Refraction, Adiabatic Processes and Atmospheric Stability, Formation of Terranes, Development of Wind Patterns, and Volcanic Activity. Each animation is accompanied by an audio narration and scrolling text that guides students through the animations and describes the most important concepts being illustrated. Self-correcting quizzes are included with each animation so that students can test their understanding of the material.

NEW - Revised and updated sections: Including new information on Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, El Nino, Acid Rain, GOES Weather Satellites, Plate Tectonics, the Pacific Ring of Fire, and causes of the Pleistocene. Pages 182-6: "Focus on El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Pages 404-7: "The Pacific Ring of Fire"

NEW - Expanded coverage of biogeography topics: Including net primary productivity, pesticide pollution, and distribution patterns of animals. Pages 266-7: "The Carbon Cycle"

NEW - New or improved diagrams: Showing tornado formation, hurricanes, and El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Page 180: Figure 7-24, "Cross-section Through a Well-developed Hurricane", Page 195: Figure 7-34 "The Formation of a Mesocyclone"

NEW - Additional remote sensing images and locator maps throughout. Pages 176-7: Figures 7-A, 7-B "GOES-west Images of a Cyclone", Front and Back Covers: Physical and Political Maps of the World

NEW - Revised appendix: Includes expanded information on contour lines and topographic maps
NEW - Revised tables for wind chill and the heat index.

Revised and expanded Student Animations CD—Included with every copy of the book, this CD contains 42 animations that illustrate the most important and challenging concepts for an introductory college physical geography class. This CD contains 13 new animations, including El Nino, Monthly Tidal Cycle, Wave Motion and Wave Refraction, Adiabatic Processes and Atmospheric Stability, Formation of Terranes, Development of Wind Patterns, and Volcanic Activity. Each animation is accompanied by an audio narration and scrolling text that guides students through the animations and describes the most important concepts being illustrated. Self-correcting quizzes are included with each animation so that students can test their understanding of the material.

Revised and updated sections—Including new information on Global Warming, Ozone Depletion, El Nino, Acid Rain, GOES Weather Satellites, Plate Tectonics, the Pacific Ring of Fire, and causes of the Pleistocene.

Expanded coverage of biogeography topics—Including net primary productivity, pesticide pollution, and distribution patterns of animals.

New or improved diagrams—Showing tornado formation, hurricanes, and El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

Additional remote sensing images and locator maps throughout.

Revised appendix—Includes expanded information on contour lines and topographic maps.

Revised tables for wind chill and the heat index.

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

1. Introduction to Earth.

Geography as a Field of Learning. In this Book. The Environmental Spheres. The Solar System. The Size and Shape of Earth. The Geographic Grid. Earth Movements. The Annual March of the Seasons. Telling Time.

2. Portraying Earth.

The Nature of Maps. The Role of Globes. Map Projections. Automated Cartography. Isolines. The Global Positioning System. Geographic Information Systems. Remote Sensing. The Role of the Geographer.

3. Introduction to the Atmosphere.

Composition of the Atmosphere. Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere. Human-induced Atmospheric Change. Weather and Climate.

4. Insolation and Temperature.

The Impact of Temperature on the Landscape. Solar Energy. Basic Processes in Heating and Cooling the Atmosphere. The Heating of the Atmosphere. Spatial and Seasonal Variations in Heating. Temperature: A Measure of Heat. Mechanisms of Heat Transfer. Vertical Temperature Patterns. Global Temperature Patterns.

5. Atmospheric Pressure and Wind.

The Impact of Pressure and Wind on the Landscape. The Nature of Atmospheric Pressure. The Nature of Wind. Vertical Variations in Pressure and Wind. The General Circulation of the Atmosphere. Modifications of the General Circulation. Localized Wind Systems.

6. Atmospheric Moisture.

The Impact of Atmospheric Moisture on the Landscape. Water Vapor and the Hydrologic Cycle. Evaporation. Measures of Humidity. Condensation. The Buoyancy of Air. Precipitation. Global Distribution of Precipitation.

7. Transient Atmospheric Flows and Disturbances.

The Impact of Storms on the Landscape. Air Masses. Fronts. Atmospheric Disturbances.

8. Climatic Zones and Types.

Climate Classification. World Distribution of Major Climatic Types and Subtypes. The Global Pattern Idealized.

9. The Hydrosphere.

The Nature of Water: Commonplace but Unique. The Hydrologic Cycle. The Oceans. Permanent Ice. Surface Waters. Underground Water.

10. Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere.

The Impact of Plants and Animals on the Landscape. The Geographic Approach to the Study of Organisms. Biogeochemical Cycles. Food Chains. The Search for a Meaningful Classification Scheme. Ecosystems and Biomes. Environmental Relationships.

11. Terrestrial Flora and Fauna.

Natural Distributions. Terrestrial Flora. Terrestrial Fauna. The Major Biomes. Human Modification of Natural Distribution Patterns.

12. Soils.

Soil and Regolith. Soil-forming Factors. Soil Components. Soil Properties. Soil Chemistry. Soil Profiles. Pedogenic Regimes. Soil Classification. Global Distribution of Major Soils. Distribution of Soils in the United States.

13. Introduction to Landform Study.

The Unknown Interior. Composition of the Crust. Some Critical Concepts. The Study of Landforms. Internal and External Geomorphic Processes. The Question of Scale. The Pursuit of Pattern.

14. The Internal Processes.

The Impact of Internal Processes on the Landscape. Crustal Rearrangement. Plate Tectonics. Vulcanism. Diastrophism. Folding. Faulting. The Complexities of Crustal Configuration.

15. Preliminaries to Erosion: Weathering and Mass Wasting.

The Impact of Weathering and Mass Wasting on the Landscape. Weathering. Mass Wasting.

16. The Fluvial Processes.

The Impact of Fluvial Processes on the Landscape. Some Fundamental Concepts. Stream Systems. Stream Channels. The Shaping and Reshaping of Valleys. Stream Rejuvenation. Theories of Landform Development.

17. Solution Processes and Karst Topography.

The Impact of Solution Processes on the Landscape. Solution and Precipitation. Caverns and Related Features. Karst Topography. Hydrothermal Features.

18. The Topography of Arid Lands.

A Specialized Environment. Running Water in Waterless Regions. Ergs, Regs, and Hamadas. The Work of the Wind. Two Characteristic Desert Landform Assemblages.

19. Glacial Modification of Terrain.

The Impact of Glaciers on the Landscape. Glaciations Past and Present. Types of Glaciers. How Glaciers. How Glaciers Form. Continental Ice Sheets. Mountain Glaciers. The Periglacial Environment. Are We Still in an Ice Age?

20. Coastal Processes and Terrain.

The Impact of Waves and Currents on the Landscape. Coastal Processes. Coastal Landforms.

Appendix I: Families of Map Projections.

Appendix II: Topographic Map Symbols.

Appendix III: The Weather Station Model.

Appendix IV: Meteorological Tables.

Appendix V: The International System of Units (SI).

Appendix VI: The Soil Taxonomy.

Appendix: Geoscience Animations.

Appendix: Relevant Internet Sites.

Glossary.

Index.

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