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Living Physical Geography

Second Edition| ©2019 Bruce Gervais

The new edition of Living Physical Geography  is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography stu...

The new edition of Living Physical Geography  is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Bruce Gervais’ new text offers a fresh approach to the study of physical geography, combining print and digital media to create a scientifically substantive work that is written for students. Living Physical Geography focuses on human-physical geography interactions, using pedagogical features in the textbook and online to create a modern synthesis of the science of physical geography. Each of the four major parts in Living Physical Geography is identified by energy flows within Earth’s physical systems. Additionally, landscape analysis underpins the body of the text. Step-by-step examples are used to illustrate how landforms and systems develop, evolve, and change through time

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Look Inside Look Inside Living Physical Geography by Bruce Gervais - Second Edition, 2019 from Macmillan Student Store

Living Physical Geography focuses on interactions between people and physical geography, using pedagogical features (in the textbook and online) to create a modern synthesis of the science of physical geography.

The new edition of Living Physical Geography  is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

Bruce Gervais’ new text offers a fresh approach to the study of physical geography, combining print and digital media to create a scientifically substantive work that is written for students. Living Physical Geography focuses on human-physical geography interactions, using pedagogical features in the textbook and online to create a modern synthesis of the science of physical geography. Each of the four major parts in Living Physical Geography is identified by energy flows within Earth’s physical systems. Additionally, landscape analysis underpins the body of the text. Step-by-step examples are used to illustrate how landforms and systems develop, evolve, and change through time

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Living Physical Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

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  • Story Maps, powered by ArcGIS provide an interactive summary of each region using clickable maps with data, narrative, and images to highlight key ideas tied to the five geographic themes in the chapter. Pre-built Story Map Quizzes for each chapter are ready to assign in Achieve.
  • Web Maps, powered by ArcGIS are part of the pre-built homework.  Students use zoom and search tools, a legend, basemaps, and layers to answer questions and deepen their regional understanding.
  • Video & Animation Quizzes -Each chapter includes videos sourced to align to the text, as well as animations that bring images from the text to life, to expand upon the main themes in the text.
  • LearningCurve adaptive quizzing helps students prepare for class and drives them back to the text to reinforce their learning.
  • Active learning materials for in-class, online or hybrid classes include: discussion activities, assignments for primary literature, handouts, and other resources to make it even easier to engage your students.


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Explores the Human-Physical Interface

Living Physical Geography highlights the role of people as they change and are changed by Earth’s physical systems. Students learn how human activity influences Earth’s physical systems, ranging from local stream erosion to global climate change. Students also learn how scientists investigate geographical phenomena (such as earthquakes, volcanoes, severe weather, and stream flooding) to mitigate their human cost and reduce human vulnerability to these events.

  • The Human Sphere begins each chapter by exploring a geographical issue or human-physical interaction relevant to the chapter.
  • Geographic Perspectives sections conclude each chapter by exploring contemporary issues in physical geography in depth. This feature encourages students to make connections among topics within and across chapters and facilitates discussion of the most important and pressing issues in physical geography today.

Emphasizes the Process of Science, the Scientific Method, and the Importance of Critical Thinking
Living Physical Geography grounds students in the process of science and the scientific method, helping students understand how we know what we know about physical geography. It addresses students as citizens, encouraging them to develop their own independent and informed ideas about geographic issues based on observation and scientific evidence.

  • Scientific Inquiry figures illustrate how scientists do what they do, how they know what they know, and how they collect and interpret scientific data in the field. Topics range from how a stream gauge works to how scientists study ancient climates.
  • Picture This features combine photos and a brief narrative to highlight a fascinating example of the topic at hand. Each includes Consider This critical-thinking questions that students answer by interpreting the narrative and analyzing the photos.

Student Friendly Approach

  • Learning Goals list the key takeaway concepts at the outset of each chapter and provide the framework for the chapter’s text, media content (including ArcGIS Web and Story Maps, animations, and videos) and online assessments in Achieve.
  • In-Text Figures combine art, photos, and step-by-step captions to walk students through illustrated summaries of important topics.

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Living Physical Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-book, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.

  • Curated Learning Path: Each chapter has a prebuilt media and content unit in Achieve. Author Bruce Gervais has carefully selected each media type to guide students through all of the learning goals in each chapter.
  • 50 new animation activities provide brief tutorials on key concepts in each chapter.
  • Powered by ArcGIS Web Maps: Students use zoom and search tools, basemaps and layers to answer questions and deepen their geographic understanding of key concepts.
  • Powered by ArcGIS Story Maps: One story map per chapter has been designed as an extension activity for students on key topics.
  • Learning Curve: Learning Curve adaptive quizzing is individualized for each student, automatically selecting questions—by difficulty and topic—according to their performance.
  • Pre-Built Homework tutorials: Homework for each chapter is designed to guide students to comprehension with wrong-answer specific feedback hints and solutions


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Second Edition| ©2019

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Living Physical Geography

Second Edition| 2019

Bruce Gervais

Table of Contents

Contents
The Geographer’s Toolkit
1. This introduction covers the traditional and modern tools and foundational concepts in wide use in geography.

Part I Atmospheric Systems: Weather and Climate
Part I explores how solar energy in the atmosphere creates atmospheric phenomena and organized systems. One chapter is devoted to the topic of climate change.

2.  Portrait of the Atmosphere
3.  Solar Energy and Seasons
4.  Water in the Atmosphere
5.  Atmospheric Circulation and Wind Systems
6.  The Restless Sky: Severe Weather and Storm Systems
7.  The Changing Climate

Part II The Biosphere and the Geography of Life
Part II is contextualized around solar energy’s work in the biosphere. Major ecological units and human modification of the biosphere are emphasized. One chapter is devoted to marine ecosystems.

8.   Patterns of Life: Biogeography 
9.   Climate and Life: Biomes 
10. Ocean Ecosystems
11. Soil and Water Resources

Part III Tectonic Systems: Building the Lithosphere
Part III explores uplift and building topographic relief via geothermal energy.

12. Earth History, Earth Interior
13. Drifting Continents: Plate Tectonics
14. Building the Crust with Rocks 
15. Geohazards: Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Part IV Erosion and Deposition: Sculpting the Earth’s Surface
Part IV examines the work of solar energy, water, chemical reactions, and gravity in grading the Earth’s surface.

16. Weathering and Mass Movement
17. Flowing Water: Fluvial Systems
18. The Work of Ice: The Cryosphere and Glacial Landforms
19. Water, Wind, and Time: Desert Landforms
20. The Work of Waves: Coastal Landforms

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Bruce Gervais is a professor of geography at California State University, Sacramento. He has a B.A. in geography from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in geography from the University of California at Los Angeles. Bruce’s research focus is paleoclimatology. For his Ph.D. research at UCLA, he studied ancient climates by using tree rings and fossil pollen preserved in lake sediments on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia. He has 12 peer-reviewed research papers detailing his work in Russia and California. Bruce enjoys his free time with his family, climbing mountain peaks, and backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail.

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