Discovering Physical Geography: Our Global Environment
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2017
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Discovering Physical Geography: Our Global Environment is an online text containing interactive multimedia components, including text/images, video, animations, hyperlinked keywords, section quizzes and follow-up study questions. This versatile textbook consists of five geographical modules that cover:
- Physical geography fundamentals-- scientific concepts and methods and fundamentals of energy and matter.
- Earth and earth-sun geometry-- global addressing system, seasonality, and properties of radiation
- Atmosphere, including hydrosphere-- composition, energy interactions, dynamics, hydrology, weather, and climate systems.
- Geosphere-- geological structures, plate tectonics, weathering, fluvial systems, arid land systems, glaciation and periglaciation and coastal systems
- Biosphere-- soils, and terrestrial systems and biomes
Module 1: Physical Geography Fundamentals
Section 1: Scientific Concepts and Methods
Section 2: Fundamentals of Energy and Matter
Module 2: Earth and Earth-Sun Geometry
Section 1: Global Address System and Time
Section 2: Reasons for Seasons-Earth-Sun Relationship
Section 3: Properties of Radiation
Module 3: Atmosphere
Section 1: Composition, Energy Interactions and Heat
Section 2: Atmospheric Dynamics: Wind to Ocean Circulation Systems
Section 3: Moisture: Hydrological Cycle and Water Balance
Section 4: What is Weather?
Section 5: Climate and Climate Change
Module 4: Geosphere
Section 1: Geological Structure and Processes
Section 2: Plate Tectonics: Topographic Relief, Earthquakes and Volcanism
Section 3: Weathering, Rocks, and Relief
Section 4: Rivers and Fluvial Landscapes
Section 5: Arid Land Systems
Section 6: Glaciation and Periglaciation
Section 7: Coastal Systems
Module 5: Biosphere
Section 1: Soils
Section 2: Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biomes