• Earth Science Study Guide

Tarbuck, (Emeritus) Illinois Central College. Earth Science Plus Mastering Geology with eText -- Access Card Package, 14th Edition.

This book offers a user-friendly overview of our physical environment with balanced, up-to-date coverage of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. The emphasis is on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations refined by over twenty years of feedback. It takes full advantage of the subject's visual appeal.

Discussions are reinforced with a superb collection of color photos along with newly redrafted illustrations by highly respected earth science illustrator, Dennis Tasa. Throughout the book, a stronger emphasis is placed on the themes of Earth as a system and the interactions between people and the natural environment. A designated home page at http: //www.prenhall.com/earthsci provides on-line review exercises, opportunities for further research, follow-up on items mentioned in the book, and links to a wealth of interesting sites related to the chapter material.

The GEODe II CD-ROM will be packaged Free with each book, and icons within the text direct users to explore related material on the CD-ROM. Plus, content has been significantly updated throughout the Ninth Edition.

Description For Introductory Earth Science Courses 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.

The Fourteenth Edition incorporates a new active learning approach, a fully updated and mobile visual program, and MasteringGeology ™—the most complete, easy-to-use, engaging tutorial and assessment tool available. This program will provide an interactive and engaging learning experience for your students. Here’s how:.

Personalize learning with MasteringGeology ™: MasteringGeology provides students with engaging and interactive experiences that coach them through introductory physical geography with specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a wide variety of educationally effective content. Teach with an active learning path: Chapters have been broken up into small manageable sections that help students actively analyze information, assess their progress and think about Earth science. Use art that teaches.

Each chapter contains 5-7 SmartFigures. SmartFigures are illustrations that use Quick Response (QR) codes to link students to lecture-style videos.

Also found in each chapter and accessed by QR codes are Mobile Field Trips, where students virtually accompany Michael Collier on adventures to explore different landscapes. Cultivate an active learning environment that helps students achieve a deeper understanding of the text. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab/Mastering does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab/Mastering search for ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 437.

That package includes ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 092 and ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 149. MyLab/Mastering is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. This product accompanies. Personalize learning with MasteringGeology. MasteringGeology ™ is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment system designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials featuring specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a huge variety of educationally effective content to keep them engaged and on track. Robust diagnostics and unrivalled gradebook reporting allow instructors to pinpoint the weaknesses and misconceptions of a student or class to provide timely intervention.

Easily assign media that is automatically graded and helps to improve students’ Earth science literacy and spatial reasoning skills. GigaPan Activities allow students to take advantage of a virtual field experience with high-resolution picture technology that has been developed by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with NASA. Additional MapMaster ™ activities have been added. MapMaster is a powerful interactive map tool that presents assignable layered thematic and place name interactive maps at world and regional scales. SmartFigures correlate to QR codes found within the text and are scanned using a mobile device that takes the student to a 2- to 3-minute feature (mini-lesson) that is prepared and narrated by Professor Callen Bentley.

Each lesson examines and explains the concepts illustrated by the figure. With over 100 of these SmartFigures inside the text, students have a multitude of ways to enjoy art that teaches. Mobile Field Trips On each trip, you will accompany geologist—pilot—photographer Michael Collier in the air and on the ground to see and learn about landscapes that relate to concepts in the chapter. These extraordinary field trips are accessed via QR codes found within the text, where students scan the code using a mobile device. Learning Catalytics™ is a student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence system that allows students to use their smartphone, tablet, or laptop to respond to questions in class. Visit to learn more. With Learning Catalytics you can:.

Assess students in real time, using open-ended tasks to probe student understanding. Understand immediately where students are and adjust your lecture accordingly. Improve your students’ critical-thinking skills. Access rich analytics to understand student performance. Add your own questions to make Learning Catalytics fit your course exactly. Manage student interactions with intelligent grouping and timing. Encounter Activities provide rich, interactive explorations of geology and Earth science concepts using the dynamic features of Google Earth ™ to visualize and explore the Earth’s physical landscape.

Geoscience Animation Activities illuminate the most difficult-to-visualize topics from across the physical geosciences. Animations and corresponding assessment questions with wrong-answer feedback may be assigned.

GeoTutor Activities and Give It Some Thought (GIST) Questions challenge learners by involving them in activities that require higher-order thinking skills such as the synthesis, analysis, and application of the toughest topics in geology. GEODe Activities provide an interactive visual walkthrough of each chapter’s core content through animation, videos, illustrations, photographs, and narration. Created by Denise Tasa, activities include assessment questions to test those concepts with hints and wrong-answer feedback. Teach with an active learning path. 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.

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. Use art that teaches. NEW! Illustrations: Dennis Tasa, a gifted artist and respected geoscience illustrator, continues adding outstanding illustrations in this edition. Truly an extension of the written story of Earth science, Tasa’s illustrations now show greater color and shading contrasts, more “narration,” and additional photo comparisons to guide students more clearly than ever before.

Eye on Earth chapter sections provide aerial or satellite views that challenge students to apply their understanding of basic facts and principles. A brief explanation of each image is followed by critical thinking questions.

Cultivate an active learning environment. NEW! Up-to-date content, data, and information have been added to this edition to give students the most relevant current information about Earth Science.

Mobile Field Trips are video field trips that are scattered throughout the text. By scanning the QR code, you are able to virtually accompany Michael Collier on an extraordinary adventure to explore different landscapes. GEOgraphics are striking visual magazine-style “geo-essays” that explore topics that promote a greater understanding and add interest to each story. Personalize learning with MasteringGeology. MasteringGeology ® is the leading online homework, tutorial, and assessment system designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts.

Students benefit from self-paced tutorials featuring specific wrong-answer feedback, hints, and a huge variety of educationally effective content to keep them engaged and on track. Robust diagnostics and unrivalled gradebook reporting allow instructors to pinpoint the weaknesses and misconceptions of a student or class to provide timely intervention. GigaPan Activities allow students to take advantage of a virtual field experience with high-resolution picture technology that has been developed by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with NASA.

Additional MapMaster TM activities have been added. MapMaster is a powerful interactive map tool that presents assignable layered thematic and place name interactive maps at world and regional scales.

SmartFigures correlate to QR codes found within the text and are scanned using a mobile device that takes the student to a 2- to 3-minute feature (mini-lesson) that is prepared and narrated by Professor Callen Bentley. Each lesson examines and explains the concepts illustrated by the figure. With over 100 of these SmartFigures inside the text, students have a multitude of ways to enjoy art that teaches. Mobile Field Trips: On each trip, you will accompany geologist–pilot–photographer Michael Collier in the air and on the ground to see and learn about landscapes that relate to concepts in the chapter.

These extraordinary field trips are accessed via QR codes found within the text, where students scan the code using a mobile device. Learning Catalytics ™ is a 'bring your own device' student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence system. With Learning Catalytics you can:. Assess students in real time, using open-ended tasks to probe student understanding. Understand immediately where students are and adjust your lecture accordingly. Improve your students’ critical-thinking skills.

Access rich analytics to understand student performance. Add your own questions to make Learning Catalytics fit your course exactly. Manage student interactions with intelligent grouping and timing. Teach with an active learning path. 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. 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. Use art that teaches.

NEW! Illustrations: Dennis Tasa, a gifted artist and respected geoscience illustrator, continues adding outstanding illustrations in this edition. Truly an extension of the written story of Earth science, Tasa’s illustrations now show greater color and shading contrasts, more “narration,” and additional photo comparisons to guide students more clearly than ever before. Cultivate an active learning environment.

Earth Science Study Guide

NEW! Up-to-date content, data, and information have been added to this edition to give students the most relevant current information about Earth Science. Mobile Field Trips are video field trips that are scattered throughout the text. By scanning the QR code, you are able to virtually accompany Michael Collier on an extraordinary adventure to explore different landscapes. GEOgraphics are striking visual magazine-style “geo-essays” that explore topics that promote a greater understanding and add interest to each story. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab/Mastering does not come packaged with this content.

If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab/Mastering search for ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 437. That package includes ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 092 and ISBN-10: /ISBN-13: 149.

MyLab/Mastering is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.