Tom L. McKnight, deceased
Darrel Hess, City College

Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 720 pp

ISBN-10:	0132338491
ISBN-13:	9780132338493

Our Price: £53.99
Status: Instock
Published: 05 Apr 2007

For introductory courses in Physical Geography or Atmospheric Resources.

Carrying forth Tom L. McKnight's well-known thematic focus 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.   The Ninth Edition represents a thorough revision and significantly updated content – yet it maintains the time-proven approach first presented by McKnight more than two decades ago.

 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. Transient Atmospheric Flows and Disturbances

 8. Climatic Zones and Types

 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. The Fluvial Processes

17. Solution Processes and Karst Topography

18. The Topography of Arid Lands

19. Glacial Modification of Terrain

20. Coastal Processes and Terrain  

Appendix 1. The International System of Units (SI)

Appendix 2. U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps

Appendix 3. Meteorological Tables Appendix 4- The Weather Station Model

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

• 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

— Major photos paired with locator maps to heighten basic geographic literacy.

• InstructorResourceCenter on CD-ROM (IRC): Everything instructors need where they want it. The Prentice Hall Instructor Resource Center makes instructors more effective, and saves time and effort. All digital resources can be found 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 PowerPoint^TM slides or Flash files.

— PowerPoint^TM: 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 PowerPoint^TM

— 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

• Updated and expanded coverage of global environmental change – Includes a new section on measuring and understanding climate change.

• Expanded Learning Review at end of each chapter

– Helps students focus on key concepts as they study each chapter.

• Expanded student CD – Includes many new animations and videos.

– Animations help students learn concepts that are difficult to grasp from simple static diagrams alone.

– Animation voice overs are written by Darrel Hess to give students more insight into the visuals.

–Quizzes wrap up each module on the CD so students can evaluate their understanding.

• New MyGeologyPlace Web site access included in each new copy of the book.

–Quizzes are mapped closely to the book to aid in reaching assessment standards.

–Results flow into a grade tracker for instructors.

• New and updated content:

– A new section on Science and Geography has been added to Chapter 1.

– An expanded section on human alteration of the atmosphere, including ozone depletion and air pollution, is included in Chapter 3.

– Material on the Coriolis Effect has been moved to Chapter 3 so that it precedes the discussion of ocean currents in Chapter 4.

– Information about energy, electromagnetic radiation, and basic heating and cooling processes has been expanded in Chapter 4.

– El Niño and other periodic ocean-atmospheric phenomena such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are now covered in Chapter 5, following the explanation of the general circulation of the atmosphere and localized wind systems.

– Material on the characteristics of water and phase changes has been expanded upon and moved to the beginning of Chapter 6 where it serves as the introduction to the discussion of moisture in the atmosphere.

– A new section on measuring and understanding climate change and global warming has been incorporated into the end of Chapter 8. This new section can also stand alone for instructors who want to discuss this material at a different point in their course.

– More extensive coverage of the movement of ocean waters–including tides and deep ocean circulation patterns–is now found in Chapter 9.

– Chapters 10 and 11 on biogeography have been updated and reorganized for greater clarity.

– Chapter 13 now includes an expanded section on rocks and minerals.

– More extensive coverage of the history and evidence of plate tectonics is found in Chapter 14.

– Chapter 16 on fluvial processes and Chapter 18 on the topography of arid lands have been updated and reorganized for greater clarity.

– Chapter 20 now includes expanded sections on tsunamis and human modification of shorelines.

– Key material found in “focus boxes” in previous editions has been integrated directly into the text.  New shorter focus boxes found in this edition include:  The UV Index, Monitoring Earth’s Radiation Budget, Measuring Sea Surface Temperature by Satellite, Forecasting El Niño, Water Vapor Satellite Images, Global Dimming, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricanes and Global Warming, Climate Change in the Arctic, Paleoclimatology at Dome C, Thawing Permafrost in Alaska, Oceans Becoming More Acidic, The Aral Sea and Lake Chad, Subsidence from Groundwater Extraction, Changing Climate Affects Bird Populations, Rainforest Loss in Brazil, Earthquake Forecasting, The Madison Valley Landslide, The Birdsfoot of the Mississippi, Disintegration of Antarctic Ice Shelves, Shrinking Alaskan Glaciers, The Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004, and Bleaching of Coral Reefs.

– Many new animations have been added to the Student CD and made available for instructors on the IRCD, including:  The Water Table, Groundwater Cone of Depression, Isostasy, Paleomagnetism, Volcano Types, Mechanical Weathering, Mass Wasting, Sand Dune Movement and Cross Bedding, and Tsunamis.