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* 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.
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1: Our Place in the Sun
Exercise 1-A, Latitude and Longitude
Exercise 1-B, Standard Time and World Time Zones
Exercise 1-C, Equinoxes and Solstices
Exercise 1-D, Comparing Map Projection
Exercise 1-E, Great Circle Routes and Rhumb Lines
2: The Earth's Global Energy Balance
Exercise 2-A, Insolation and Latitude
Exercise 2-B, The Annual Cycle of Insolation
Exercise 2-C, Duration of Sunlight at Different Latitudes
3: Air Temperature
Exercise 3-A, Conversion of Temperature Scales
Exercise 3-B, The Daily Cycles of Net Radiation and Air Temperature
Exercise 3-C, The Daily Temperature Range
Exercise 3-D, The Annual Cycle of Air Temperature
Exercise 3-E, Drawing Isotherms
4: Atmospheric Moisture and Precipitation
Exercise 4-A, Relative Humidity and the Dew-Point Temperature
Exercise 4-B, Adiabatic Cooling of Rising Air
Exercise 4-C, Adiabatic Warming and the Rain Shadow
5: Winds and Global Circulation
Exercise 5-A, Converting Barometric Pressures
Exercise 5-B, Pressure Versus Altitude
Exercise 5-C, Isobars on the Surface Weather Map
Exercise 5-D, The Wind Rose and Global Wind Belts
Exercise 5-E, Upper Air Winds
6: Weather Systems
Exercise 6-A, Qualities of Various Air Masses
Exercise 6-B, World Weather on a Day in July
Exercise 6-C, Air Masses Around the World on a Day in July
Exercise 6-D, Interpreting the Daily Weather Map
Exercise 6-E, Anatomy and Geography of Tropical Cyclones
7: Global Climates
Exercise 7-A, Seasonal Rainfall Contrasts in the Wet-Dry Tropical Climate
Exercise 7-B, Climographs of Low-Latitude Climates
Exercise 7-C, The Subtropical Desert Temperature Regime
Exercise 7-D, Climographs of Midlatitude and High-Latitude Climates
Exercise 7-E, Identifying Koppen Climates
8: Biogeographic Processes
Exercise 8-A, Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Exercise 8-B, Photosynthesis and Carbon Dioxide Concentration
9: Global Biogeography
Exercise 9-A, The Forest Biome
Exercise 9-B, Savanna, Grassland, Desert, and Tundra Biomes
10: Global Soils
Exercise 10-A, Soil Textures
Exercise 10-B, Soil Orders and Climate
11: Earth Materials
Exercise 11-A, The Igneous Rocks and their Minerals
Exercise 11-B, Size Grades of Sediment Particles
Exercise 11-C, Geologic Maps and Structure Sections
12: The Lithosphere and Plate Tectonics
Exercise 12-A, The Lithospheric Plates
Exercise 12-B, Kinds of Plate Junctions and their Meaning
Exercise 12-C, Using Quasars to Tell How Fast the Plates Move
13: Volcanic and Tectonic Landforms
Exercise 13-A, Using Graphic Scales to Measure Distances
Exercise 13-B, The United States Land Office Grid System
Exercise 13-C, Mount Shasta-- A Statovolcano
Exercise 13-D, Shield Volcanoes of Hawaii
Exercise 13-E, Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
Exercise 13-F, Fault Scarps of the Klamath Lakes Region
14: Weathering and Mass Wasting
Exercise 14-A, Exfoliation Domes of the Yosemite Valley
Exercise 14-B, The Great Turtle Mountain Landslide
15: Fresh Water of the Continents
Exercise 15-A, The Annual Cycle of Rise and Fall of the Water Table
Exercise 15-B, Flood Regimes and Climate
Exercise 15-C, Evaporation from American Lakes
Exercise 15-D, Sinkholes of the Kentucky Karst Region
16: Landforms Made by Running Water
Exercise 16-A, Niagara Falls
Exercise 16-B, Alluvial Terraces
Exercise 16-C, Floodplains and their Meanders
Exercise 16-D, Alluvial Fans of Death Valley, California
17: Landforms and Rock Structure
Exercise 17-A, Mesas, Buttes, and Cliffs
Exercise 17-B, Domes and their Hogbacks
Exercise 17-C, Mountain Ridges on Folded Strata
Exercise 17-D, Stone Mountain-- a Granite Monadnock
Exercise 17-E, A Volcanic Neck and its Radial Dikes
18: Landforms Made by Waves and Wind
Exercise 18-A, The Ria Coast of Brittany-- a Youthful Shoreline
Exercise 18-B, Coastal Sand Bars
Exercise 18-C, Barrier Island Coasts
Exercise 18-D, The Ocean Tide
Exercise 18-E, Crescent Dunes and Sand Seas
19: Glacial Landforms and the Ice Age
Exercise 19-A, Living Glaciers of Alaska and British Columbia
Exercise 19-B, Glacial Landforms of the Rocky Mountains
Exercise 19-C, Moraines and Outwash Plains
Exercise 19-D, Eskers and Drumlins
Appendix: Topographic Map Reading