This lab manual offers a comprehensive set of lab exercises to accompany any physical geography class. The manual is organized to meet the personal needs of instructors, as they can pick and choose a series of short lab exercises each week. Lab exercises involve Google Earth™ explorations to review concepts such as Doppler Radar and Continental Glaciation, and more than 40 QR codes now link students to a variety of media resources including Google Earth videos, color topographic maps and images and satellite movie loops. Also new to this edition is a lab on soils, and a field GIS lab exercise. High quality color stereoscope images and aerial photographs are now included in lab manual to give students an integrated picture of locations and landforms.
Table of Contents
Exercise 1. Metric Conversions
Exercise 2. Location
Exercise 3. Time
Exercise 4. Map Scale
Exercise 5. Map Projections
Exercise 6. Isolines
Exercise 7. Contour Lines
Exercise 8. U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps*
Exercise 9. Topographic Profiles
Exercise 10. U.S. Public Land Survey System*
Exercise 11. Stereo Aerial Photographs
Exercise 12. Landscape Analysis with GoogleEarth� and the National Map+
Exercise 13. Geographic Information Systems*
Exercise 14. Earth-Sun Relations
Exercise 15. Solar Angle
Exercise 16. Insolation
Exercise 17. Temperature Patterns
Exercise 18. Air Pressure
Exercise 19. Wind*
Exercise 20. Humidity
Exercise 21. Adiabatic Processes
Exercise 22. Stability
Exercise 23. Midlatitude Cycles
Exercise 24. Weather Maps*
Exercise 25. Weather Satellite Images*
Exercise 26. Doppler Radar
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Exercise 27. Hurricanes*
Exercise 28. Climate Classification
Exercise 29. Weather Variability and Climate Change*
Exercise 30. Biome Distribution and Climate* +
Exercise 31. Soils* +
Exercise 32. Plate Tectonics
Exercise 33. Volcanoes* +
Exercise 34. Volcanic Calderas* +
Exercise 35. Faulting*+
Exercise 36. The San Andreas Fault*+
Exercise 37. Mass Wasting*+
Exercise 38. Drainage Basins*+
Exercise 39. Floodplains*+
Exercise 40. Stream Drainage Basins* +
Exercise 41. Stream Rejuvenation*+
Exercise 42. Flood Recurrence Intervals
Exercise 43. Karst Topography*+
Exercise 44. Desert Landforms*+
Exercise 45. Sand Dunes*
Exercise 46. Continental Glaciation*+
Exercise 47. Alpine Glaciation*+
Exercise 48. Coastal Landforms*+
Exercises with an asterisk
� include QR Codes that link print manual to online imagery or media. Exercises with a plus sign + include optional parts that make use of Google Earth.
