The Structure of Living Physical Geography
Living Physical Geography: Innovations
Living Physical Geography Is Written for a Variety of Ways Students Learn
Living Physical Geography Is an Integrated Textbook/Media Learning Solution
LaunchPad: Resources for Students and Instructors
Living Physical Geography in the Laboratory: Lab Manual to Accompany Living Physical Geography
GT.1 Welcome to Physical Geography!
GT.2 The Physical Earth
The Structure of Living Physical Geography
GT.5 The Scientific Method and Easter Island
1.1 Composition of the Atmosphere
1.2 The Weight of Air: Atmospheric Pressure
1.3 The Layered Atmosphere
1.5 Refrigerators and Life on Earth
2.3 Surface Temperature Patterns
2.4 The Sun’s Radiant Energy
2.5 Earth’s Energy Budget
2.6 The Rising Solar Economy
3.1 The Hydrologic Cycle and Water
3.3 Lifting Air: Atmospheric Stability
3.5 Precipitation: What Goes Up …
4.1 Measuring and Mapping the Wind
4.2 Air Pressure and Wind
4.3 Global Atmospheric Circulation Patterns
4.4 Wind Systems: Sea Breezes to Gravity Winds
5.2 Thunderstorm Hazards: Lightning and Tornadoes
5.3 Nature’s Deadliest Storms: Hurricanes
5.6 Are Atlantic Hurricanes a Growing Threat?
6.2 Trends, Cycles, and Anomalies
6.4 Climate at the Crossroads
7.1 Biogeographic Patterns
7.2 Setting the Boundaries: Limiting Factors
7.3 Moving Around: Dispersal
7.4 Starting Anew: Ecological Disturbance and Succession
7.5 Three Ways to Organize the Biosphere
7.6 Journey of the Coconut
8.3 Midlatitude and High-Latitude Biomes
8.4 Biomes Found at All Latitudes
9.1 The Living Veneer: Soils
9.2 The Hidden Hydrosphere: Groundwater
9.3 Problems Associated with Groundwater
9.4 Water Resources under Pressure
10.2 Life on the Continental Margins
10.3 Life in Polar Waters
10.5 The Problem with Plastic
11.2 Deep History: Geologic Time
11.3 Anatomy of a Planet: Earth’s Internal Structure
11.4 Earth’s Heat and the Biosphere
12.1 Continental Drift: Wegener’s Theory
12.2 Plate Tectonics: An Ocean of Evidence
12.3 Plate Boundary Landforms
12.4 Hot Spots, Folding and Faulting, and Mountain Building
12.5 The Tibetan Plateau, Climate, and People
13.1 Minerals and Rocks: Building Earth’s Crust
13.2 Cooling the Inferno: Igneous Rocks
13.3 Layers of Time: Sedimentary Rocks
13.4 Pressure and Heat: Metamorphic Rocks
13.5 Fracking for Shale Gas
14.2 Pele’s Power: Volcanic Hazards
14.3 Tectonic Hazards: Faults and Earthquakes
14.4 Unstable Crust: Seismic Waves
14.5 The World’s Deadliest Volcano
15.2 Dissolving Rocks: Karst Landforms
15.3 Unstable Ground: Mass Movement
15.4 Deadly Mass Movements
16.2 Downcutting by Streams: Fluvial Erosion
16.3 Building by Streams: Fluvial Deposition
16.4 Rising Waters: Stream Flooding
17.1 Frozen Ground: Periglacial Environments
17.3 Carving by Ice: Glacial Erosion
17.4 Building by Ice: Glacial Deposition
17.5 Polar Ice Sheets and Sea Level
18.1 Desert Landforms and Processes
18.3 Shrinking Desert Lakes
19.1 Coastal Processes: Tides, Waves, and Longshore Currents
19.2 Coastal Landforms: Beaches and Rocky Coasts
19.3 The Sisyphus Stone of Beach Nourishment