Last edition Elsevier Ideal for undergraduates with little or no science background, Earth Science provides a student-friendly overview of our physical environment that offers balanced, up-to-date coverage of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. The authors’ texts have always been recognized for their readability, currency, dynamic art program, delivery of basic principles and instructor flexibility.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781292061313
Imprint: Pearson Education
Language: English
Authors: Edward J. Tarbuck
Pub Date: 01/2015
Pages: 792
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 1,720.000 grams
Size: 244 x 278 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • NEW! Expanded active learning path that consists of four main parts: Focus on Concepts, Concept Checks, Give It Some Thought and Examining Earth Systems. By breaking up chapters into smaller modules, the text changes the way that students learn and retain information. Rather than passively read through long passages of exposition, they can absorb manageable bits of information, assess their knowledge of it, and go back and review the material if needed.
- • NEW! Concepts in review areend-of-chapter features that coordinate with Focus on Concepts, beginning chapter features. This feature provides a concise overview of key ideas by using photos, diagrams and questions that test students’ understanding of core concepts.
- • Focus on Concepts is anumbered learning objective feature that corresponds to each major section of the chapter and identifies the knowledge and skills that students should master by the end of the chapter. This feature helps students prioritize key concepts.
- • Concepts Checks: Within each chapter, every major section concludes with “Concept Checks” that allow students to monitor their understanding and comprehension of significant facts and ideas.
- • Give It Some Thought (GIST) These questions and problems are found at the end of each chapter and challenge learners by involving them in activities that require higher order thinking skills that include the synthesis, analysis, and application of material in the chapter.
- • Examining Earth Systems are chapter-concluding sections that present problems and questionsintended to develop awareness and appreciation for some of the Earth systems’ many interrelationships.
- Fred Lutgens and Ed Tarbuck have been good friends and colleagues since 1970. Between them, they have more than 60 years of experience teaching geology to undergraduates, and both have been recognized with awards as excellent and inspiring professors. They share a special interest in introducing geology to beginning students and a belief in the value of field experiences for students of all levels. Lutgens and Tarbuck published their first college text, Earth Science, in 1976. That book, winner of the McGuffy Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is now in its 15th edition. In 1983, as the 1st edition of Earth was being prepared, gifted geology illustrator Dennis Tasa joined the author team. Since then the three have collaborated on more than thirty projects. Not only do Tarbuck, Lutgens, and Tasa work well together creatively; they also enjoy spending time in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Tasa’s New Mexico studio. Tarbuck enjoys downhill skiing in Colorado, fly fishing near his childhood home in Northern Minnesota, and spending time in the Cascades. Lutgens is an avid runner, and when he can make the time, truly enjoys hiking the canyons of the Colorado Plateau. Although Lutgens and Tarbuck think alike on many issues, they don’t agree on everything. Lutgens is devoted to jazz and classical music, whereas Tarbuck prefers pop artists or a good country station.
- 1: Introduction to Earth Science
- Unit 1 Earth Minerals
- 2: Matter and Minerals
- 3: Rocks: Materials of the Solid Earth
- Unit 2 Sculpturing Earth’s Surface
- 4: Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting
- 5: Running Water and Ground Water
- 6: Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind
- Unit 3 Forces Within
- 7: Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds
- 8: Earthquakes and Earth’s Interior
- 9: Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
- 10: Crustal Deformation and Mountain Building
- Unit 4 Deciphering Earth’s History
- 11: Geologic Time
- 12: Earth’s Evolution Through Geologic Time
- Unit 5 The Global Ocean
- 13: The Ocean Floor
- 14: Ocean Water and Ocean Life
- 15: The Dynamic Ocean
- Unit 6 Earth’s Dynamic Atmosphere
- 16: The Atmosphere: Composition, Structure, and Temperature
- 17: Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation
- 18: Air Pressure and Wind
- 19: Weather Patterns and Severe Storms
- 20: World Climates and Global Climate Change
- Unit 7 Earth’s Place in the Universe
- 21: Origins of Modern Astronomy
- 22: Touring Our Solar System
- 23: Light, Astronomical Observations, and The Sun
- 24: Beyond Our Solar System:
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