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| Introduction | |
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| Introducing Physical Geography | |
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| Introducing Geography | |
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| Realms of Geography | |
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| Tools in Geography | |
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| Systems in Physical Geography | |
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| Understanding Physical Geography | |
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| Physical Geography, Environment, and Global Change | |
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| Spheres, Scales, Systems, and Cycles | |
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| The Four Great Earth Realms | |
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| Scales in Physical Geography | |
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| Systems in Physical Geography | |
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| Weather and Climate Systems | |
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| The Earth as a Rotating Planet | |
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| The Shape of the Earth | |
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| Earth Rotation | |
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| The Geographic Grid | |
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| Map Projections | |
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| Global Time | |
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| The Earth's Revolution Around the Sun | |
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| The Global Energy System | |
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| Electromagnetic Radiation | |
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| Insolation over the Globe | |
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| World Latitude Zones | |
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| Composition of the Atmosphere | |
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| Sensible Heat and Latent Heat Transfer | |
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| The Global Energy System | |
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| Net Radiation, Latitude, and the Energy Balance | |
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| Air Temperature and Air Temperature Cycles | |
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| Surface Temperature | |
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| Air Temperature | |
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| The Daily Cycle of Air Temperature | |
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| Temperature Structure of the Atmosphere | |
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| The Annual Cycle of Air Temperature | |
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| World Patterns of Air Temperature | |
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| Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation | |
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| Three States of Water | |
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| The Hydrosphere and the Hydrologic Cycle | |
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| Humidity | |
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| The Adiabatic Process | |
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| Clouds | |
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| Precipitation | |
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| Air Quality | |
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| Winds and the Global Circulation System | |
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| Atmospheric Pressure | |
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| Winds and Pressure Gradients | |
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| Global Wind and Pressure Patterns | |
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| Local Winds | |
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| Winds Aloft | |
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| Temperature Layers of the Ocean | |
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| Ocean Currents | |
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| Weather Systems | |
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| Air Masses | |
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| Traveling Cyclones and Anticyclones | |
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| Tropical and Equatorial Weather Systems | |
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| Poleward Transport of Heat and Moisture | |
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| Cloud Cover, Precipitation, and Global Warming | |
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| The Global Scope of Climate | |
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| Temperature Regimes | |
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| Global Precipitation | |
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| Climate Classification | |
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| Low-Latitude Climates | |
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| Overview of the Low-Latitude Climates | |
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| The Wet Equatorial Climate 1 | |
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| The Monsoon and Trade-Wind Coastal Climate 2 | |
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| The Wet-Dry Tropical Climate 3 | |
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| The Dry Tropical Climate 4 | |
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| Highland Climates of Low Latitudes | |
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| Midlatitude and High-Latitude Climates | |
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| Overview of the Midlatitude Climates | |
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| The Dry Subtropical Climate 5 | |
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| The Moist Subtropical Climate 6 | |
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| The Mediterranean Climate 7 | |
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| The Marine West-Coast Climate 8 | |
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| The Dry Midlatitude Climate 9 | |
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| The Moist Continental Climate 10 | |
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| Overview of the High-Latitude Climates | |
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| The Boreal Forest Climate 11 | |
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| The Tundra Climate 12 | |
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| The Ice Sheet Climate 13 | |
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| Systems and Cycles of the Solid Earth | |
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| Earth Materials and the Cycle of Rock Change | |
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| The Crust and Its Composition | |
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| Igneous Rocks | |
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| Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Metamorphic Rocks | |
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| The Cycle of Rock Change | |
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| The Lithosphere and the Tectonic System | |
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| The Structure of the Earth | |
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| The Geologic Time Scale | |
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| Major Relief Features of the Earth's Surface | |
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| Plate Tectonics | |
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| Continents of the Past | |
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| Volcanic and Tectonic Landforms | |
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| Landforms | |
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| Volcanic Activity | |
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| Landforms of Tectonic Activity | |
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| Earthquakes | |
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| Systems of Landform Evolution | |
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| Weathering and Mass Wasting | |
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| Physical Weathering | |
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| Chemical Weathering and Its Landforms | |
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| Mass Wasting | |
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| Induced Mass Wasting | |
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| Processes and Landforms of Arctic and Alpine Tundra | |
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| The Cycling of Water on the Continents | |
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| Ground Water | |
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| Limestone Solution by Ground Water | |
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| Problems of Ground Water Management | |
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| Surface Water | |
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| Stream Flow | |
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| Lakes | |
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| Surface Water As a Natural Resource | |
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| Fluvial Processes and Landforms | |
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| Fluvial Processes and Landforms | |
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| Slope Erosion | |
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| The Work of Streams | |
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| Stream Gradation | |
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| Fluvial Processes in an Arid Climate | |
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| Landforms and Rock Structure | |
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| Rock Structure as a Landform Control | |
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| Landforms of Horizontal Strata and Coastal Plains | |
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| Landforms of Warped Rock Layers | |
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| Landforms Developed on Other Land-Mass Types | |
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| The Work of Waves and Wind | |
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| The Work of Waves | |
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| Tidal Currents | |
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| Types of Coastlines | |
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| Wind Action | |
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| Sand Dunes | |
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| Loess | |
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| Glacier Systems and the Ice Age | |
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| Glaciers | |
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| Alpine Glaciers | |
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| Ice Sheets of the Present | |
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| Sea Ice and Icebergs | |
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| The Ice Age | |
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| Landforms Made by Ice Sheets | |
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| Investigating the Ice Age | |
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| Systems and Cycles of Soils and the Biosphere | |
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| Soil Systems | |
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| The Nature of the Soil | |
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| The Soil Water Balance | |
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| Soil Development | |
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| The Global Scope of Soils | |
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| Systems and Cycles of the Biosphere | |
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| Energy Flow in Ecosystems | |
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| Biomass as an Energy Source | |
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| Biogeochemical Cycles in the Biosphere | |
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| Biogeographic Processes | |
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| Ecological Biogeography | |
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| Ecological Succession | |
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| Historical Biogeography | |
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| Biodiversity | |
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| Global Ecosystems | |
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| Natural Vegetation | |
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| Structure and Life-form of Plants | |
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| Terrestrial Ecosystems--The Biomes | |
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| The Canadian System of Soil Classification | |
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| Climate Definitions and Boundaries | |
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| Conversion Factors | |
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| Answers to Problems | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |