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Janson , Penelope J. Jacobs , Ann M. Roberts , David L. Since Free ebooks since The seventh edition uses a new thematic framework to organize information and help students think critically about the local and global impacts of environment; gender and population; urbanization; globalization and development; and power and politics. World Regional Geography, Seventh Edition is also available in a version without sub-regional coverage For introductory courses in World Regional Geography Praised for its scholarship and authoritative, comprehensive coverage of world regions, Johnson, Haarmann, and Johnson's World Regional Geography takes you on a unique, in-depth exploration of the world's regions.
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A structured learning path has been created to provide a framework for student engagement. Outstanding pedagogical tools makes teaching and learning easier and more effective: The material refocuses on geography fundamentals and includes a sound thematic structure, chapter-opening vignettes, and concise, useful end-of-chapter review material.
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MasteringGeography is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor. The workbook contains activities intended for use with the blank basemaps, along with assessment questions for each realm. The text's hallmark pedagogical feature, "Profile" chapters, provide a brief, thematic overview of each of the eight regions.
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Cooperation and conflict, resource abundance and scarcity, poverty and prosperity, floods and droughts--all play roles in transforming the Earth's surface. This insightful text presents world regional geography as a way to comprehend the world's connections and continuous interplay between features of place, populations, resources, cultures, and political systems.
Retaining its balanced cultural and physical geographic perspectives on the world's eight regions, the sixth edition includes new illustrations, examples, and cross-references to show students how human activities and natural processes reshape places and landscapes.
The result? Students develop their own deeper understanding of how the world works--and what can happen when natural events or human decisions make things go wrong. Contemporary World Regional Geography provides a current, balanced geographical study of world issues through analysis of ten world regions and the countries in each. It integrates the themes of "global connections" and "local voices" and utilizes a consistent structure within each chapter.
Per reviewer requests, each chapter is now organized to begin with environmental issues of the region followed by historical geography, global and local issues and economic, political, cultural, and social issues.
The greatest advantage of the new organization is that students will be able to easily compare one region with another to understand similarities and differences. Weather is immediate daily conditions, such as a daily weather forecast.
However, climate refers to the long term average of weather conditions for a place over a long period of time. What are the main forces that produce precipitation and aridity?
Precipitation is the result of air rising and cooling. As warm moist air rises, it cools at the environmental laps rate For faster moving air, the cooling rate is As the temperature drops, the relative humidity increases to the dew point where the air is saturated. Further cooling results in moisture collecting around dust particles hydroscopic nuclei to form droplets. These droplets join to produce larger droplets which ultimately fall as rain.
What are the major climate types and their associated biomes? Ice cap climates are found at the north and south poles and on the top of tall mountains. In the ice cap biome, vegetation is virtually nonexistent, except in some areas where the ice or snow melts and allows some tundra vegetation to grow. Subarctic climates have long cold winters. However, the summers in this climate type are short and cool. Coniferous Forests, often called boreal forests or taiga covers much of Northern Russia and thrive in subarctic climates such as the Siberian region.
In this type of biome, needle leaf evergreen coniferous trees are present, since this type of plant life can withstand long periods of time when the ground is frozen. Tundra climates have long cold winters and short cool summers. Vegetation is predominantly mosses, lichens, some shrubs, dwarfed trees, and a few types of grasses. In a desert climate, dry conditions prevail. Receiving less than ten inches of precipitation annually is the standard criteria to be classified as a desert climate.
Thus, vegetation in this type of climate is sparse and if present, usually consists of desert shrubs and cactus. Areas next to deserts, which get more rain and are more humid, are referred to as transitional zones and called semiarid or steppe areas, grasslands, or temperate grasslands.
The vegetation in steppe areas is grass. In a savanna, the grass is tall often three feet high, but in prairies it is much shorter. In tropical rain forests and tropical savanna climates there are distinct differences. In tropical rain forests, the conditions are hot, with high rainfall, and high humidity; these ideal conditions produce vegetation that is growing every day. Tropical rain forests are generally located near the equator, and have the greatest diversity of plant and animal life on the planet.
Although mostly dominated by broadleaf evergreen trees, the major rain forest has four layers:. Floor 2. Understory 3. Canopy 4. Emergent In comparison to tropical rain forests, tropical savannas have a more prolonged dry season In a tropical deciduous forest, the trees lose their leaves during the drier months, which seems fitting since the name deciduous means seasonal shedding of leaves. Marine west coast climates are found on the western side of continents.
Conifers, redwoods, and sequoia are some examples of vegetation which usually thrives in these humid middlelatitude regions which have mild to hot summers and winters ranging from mild to cold.
Mediterranean climates are most typically found between a marine west coast climate and lower-latitude steppe or desert climate, such as southern Europe and some parts of California. This type of climate usually has a dry summer with the majority of the rain in the winter months. Vegetation in this climate is referred to as a Mediterranean scrub forest or chaparral, with many of the shrubs containing fragrant oils.
This type of climate is characterized by hot summers and cool winters with mixed broadleaf and pine trees. The humid continental climate is farther north and has hot summers and cold winters. Temperatures in this climate are more extreme. Vegetation in this climate type is mostly conifers. Temperate mixed forests have broadleaf and conifers trees as the main vegetation types.
This type of climate is seen in middle-latitude areas with humid subtropical and humid continental climate types. Pine forests on the coastal plains of the southern United States are an example of this climate type.
Undifferentiated highland climates have a range of conditions according to elevation, wind, and sun exposure. The vegetation in an undifferentiated highland climate differs greatly depending upon elevation, degree and direction of slope, and other factors. This type of biome can be seen near mountain ranges in places such as Colorado. Where do they tend to occur on Earth?
Where are the biodiversity hot spots? Biodiversity hot spots are regions where human activities are rapidly depleting the rich variety of plant and animal life. In what kinds of locations and biomes do many of them occur? Conservation International has identified thirty-four priority sites for biodiversity hot spots. Most of these areas are in tropical rainforest and are islands that tend to have high biodiversity and often endemic species because species on them have evolved in isolation to fulfill special roles in these ecosystems and because human pressures on island ecosystems are particularly intense.
Simply put, the oceans are invaluable. One of the most important roles played by the ocean is the hydrologic cycle, which happens as evaporation over the oceans increases the humidity in the air.
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