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Laboratory Manual for Physical Geography, 2nd Edition

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Overview
Resources for Instructors

This student-friendly, interactive lab manual presents activities and experiments that enhance students’ ability to both visualize and understand physical geographic topics. In a clear and concise tone, the manual requires students to first apply information they learned and then to critically evaluate the information.

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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 Maps in the Digital Age. Chapter 2 Earth-Sun System. Chapter 3 Water in the Atmosphere. Chapter 4 Fronts, storms and Weather Maps. Chapter 5 Global Climates. Chapter 6 Vegetation and soils. Chapter 7 Minerals, the Rock Cycle and Plate Tectonics. Chapter 8 Volcanoes, Faults and Mountains. Chapter 9 Weathering and Rivers. Chapter 10 Deserts, Coasts and Glacial Landscapes.

New To This Edition

The fully-updated 2nd edition includes new artwork and images as well as 14 new exercises on the following topics:

· Global Positioning System

· Maps in the Digital Age

· Satellite Images

· Earth's Energy Balance

· The Greenhouse Effect

· Global Warming

· Latent Heating

· Predicting Weather With Models

· Digital Forecasts

· Regional climate Change

· Agricultural productivity

· Water resources and agriculture

· Pacific ring of fire from satellite

· Rotation of the Earth's inner core

Hallmark Features

Minimal text. The author keeps descriptive text at a minimum, giving students more time to perform experiments, answer questions and write up lab reports.
Self-contained Lab Units. All pedagogical features are complete for each Unit, including Lab Reports. This helps students focus on the topics learned in that lab.