(eBook PDF) McKnight’s Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation 12th – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0134195426
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0134195421
• Author:  Darrel Hess, Dennis Tasa

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 12th Edition offers a truly meaningful integration of visualization, 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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction to Earth
2. Portraying Earth
3. Introduction to the Atmosphere
4. Insolation and Temperature
5. Atmospheric Pressure and Wind
6. Atmospheric Moisture
7. Atmospheric Disturbances
8. Climate and Climate Change
9. The Hydrosphere
10. Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere
11. Terrestrial Flora and Fauna
12. Soils
13. Introduction to Landform Study
14. The Internal Processes
15. Weathering and Mass Wasting
16. Fluvial Processes
17. Karst and Hydrothermal Processes
18. The Topography of Arid Lands
19. Glacial Modification of Terrain
20. Coastal Processes and Terrain

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