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For courses in Physical Geography.
Explore the changing global environment with real-world examples and mobile field trips
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.
Also available with Mastering Geography
This title is also available with Mastering™ Geography-an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.
Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering Geography does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Geography, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering Geography, search for:
0134169859 / 9780134169859 McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation Plus Mastering Geography with eText -- Access Card Package
Package consists of:
0134195426 / 9780134195421 McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation
0134245156 / 9780134245157 Mastering Geography with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation
McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 12th Edition is also available via Pearson eText, a simple-to-use, mobile, personalized reading experience that lets instructors connect with and motivate students — right in their eTextbook. Learn more.
Contents
Introduction to Earth
Portraying Earth
Introduction to the Atmosphere
Insolation and Temperature
Atmospheric Pressure and Wind
Atmospheric Moisture
Atmospheric Disturbances
Climate and Climate Change
The Hydrosphere
Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere
Terrestrial Flora and Fauna
Soils
Introduction to Landform Study
The Internal Processes
Weathering and Mass Wasting
Fluvial Processes
Karst and Hydrothermal Processes
The Topography of Arid Lands
Glacial Modification of Terrain
Coastal Processes and Terrain
