McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, 12th edition

About the book
Help students see why physical geography is relevant to the real world

• NEW! Global Environmental Change features written by expert contributors provide brief case studies on critical issues related to environmental change.
• NEW! Practicing Geography references highlight geography and science being practiced in the real world, emphasizing people in scientific jobs, to help readers see job opportunities in geoscience, and to put a more human face to the topics and science.
• NEW! Have You Ever Wondered...? chapter-opening inquiries present familiar real-world phenomena related to the chapter and work with Big Questions and Seeing Geographically features, making the chapter opener a more engaging, active, and living introduction to the chapter.
• UPDATED! Energy for the 21st Century features, most written by expert contributors, provide balanced coverage of both renewable and non-renewable energy resources, authored by expert contributors.
• UPDATED! People & the Environment boxes, some written by expert contributors, discuss the effects of human activity on the environment.
• UPDATED! Focus features, many written by expert contributors, present in-depth case studies of special topics in physical geography.

Keep students actively engaged with active learning tools

• NEW! Environmental Analysis activities at the end of each chapter provide users with a higher-level application exercise, sending students outside of the book to analyze data and perform other higher-order learning tasks.
• UPDATED! Tasa Illustrations have been updated with the latest data and visually impactful presentations of physical geosciences processes:
• Hundreds of maps with shaded relief where appropriate.
• Line art with numerous multi-part photorealistic illustrations that capture sequence and evolution to help students understand various processes.
• Major photos paired with locator maps to enhance geographic literacy.
• UPDATED! Quick Response (QR) Codes link to video and animation resources as a means to provide students with just-in-time access to visualization media tied to major concepts.
• UPDATED! Seeing Geographically questions at the beginning and end of each chapter ask students to perform visual analysis and critical thinking to check their understanding of key chapter concepts and overcome any misconceptions.
• Expert Contributors author most of the special Global Environmental Change, Focus, People and the Environment, Energy for the 21^st Century, and Environmental Analysis features, providing a variety of expertise and experience, as well as current data incorporated to ensure the latest science, statistics, and associated imagery.

Hallmark pedagogical features

• UPDATED! Key Questions work as chapter-specific learning outcomes that connect to Learning Checks, End of Chapter Questions, and Learning Outcomes in MasteringGeography.
• UPDATED! Learning Checks integrate review questions at the end of chapter sections, helping students check comprehension. All boxed features will now include Checkpoint questions.
• UPDATED! Review & Study Questions at the end of every chapter give students the practice they need to learn and master the material.
• Language, Consistency, and Connections have been improved with more consistency among features and concepts, and less formal and abstract language.
• Modernized Design including fresh colors, fonts, and larger imagery.

Support instructors

• The Test Bank includes Bloom’s Taxonomy and correlations to global and text-specific student learning outcomes to give instructors more options for assessing their students with a higher order of learning and efficacy standards.
• Assess student progress with MasteringGeography. Powerful tracking tools in MasteringGeography allow instructors to see how an individual student is progressing through the course compared to the class and the national average. Instructors can tackle areas where students are struggling right away, ensuring that every student has a chance to succeed.
• Instructor Resource DVDs provide instructors with everything they need to prepare for lecture and support their course electronically in one convenient place.

Also available with MasteringGeography^TM
This title is also available with MasteringGeography—an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.

• NEW! 20 Mobile Field Trip videos for geography from Michael Collier take students out into the landscape, providing an interactive avenue for exploring landscapes and the major themes of physical geography. The videos are QR-linked from the printed book, and are available for assignment with assessment in MasteringGeography.
• NEW! MapMaster 2.0 Interactive Map Activities are inspired by GIS, allowing students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. Now fully mobile, with enhanced analysis tools, students can geolocate themselves in the data and upload their own data for advanced map making and spatial data analysis. This tool includes zoom and annotation functionality, with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as the PRB, the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, the CIA, and more.
• NEW! Video Activities from sources such as the BBC, Financial Times, and Television for the Environment’s Life and Earth Report series provide students with applied real-world examples of physical geography in action, a sense of place, and allow students to explore a range of locations and topics.
• NEW! eText 2.0

• Full eReader functionality includes page navigation, search, glossary, highlighting, note taking, annotations, and more.  
• A responsive design allows the eText to reflow/resize to a device or screen. eText 2.0 now works on supported smartphones, tablets, and laptop/desktop computers.
• In-context glossary offers students instant access to definitions by simply hovering over key terms.
• Seamlessly integrated videos and activities allow students to watch and practice key concepts within the eText learning experience.
• Accessible (screen-reader ready).
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.

• UPDATED! Geoscience Animations help students visualize the most challenging processes in the physical geosciences with schematic animations that include audio narration. Animations include assignable multiple-choice quizzes with specific wrong answer feedback to help guide students toward mastery of these core physical process concepts.
• Pre-Lecture Reading Quizzes ensure students complete the assigned reading before class and stay on track with reading assignments. Reading Quizzes are 100% mobile ready and can be completed by students on mobile devices.
• Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. Once completed, Dynamic Study Modules explain the concept using materials from the text. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers.
• Learning Catalytics™ is an interactive, student response tool that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now included with MyLab & Mastering with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Instructors, you can:
• Pose a variety of open-ended questions that help your students develop critical thinking skills, such as sketching, word clouds, region, image upload, etc.     
• Monitor responses to find out where students are struggling.
• Use real-time data to adjust your instructional strategy and try other ways of engaging your students during class.
• Manage student interactions by automatically grouping students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

• UPDATED! GeoTutor Activities help students master the toughest physical geoscience concepts with highly visual, kinesthetic activities focused on critical thinking and the application of core geoscience concepts.

• Encounter Physical Geography Google Earth Activities provide rich, interactive Google Earth explorations of physical geography concepts, helping students visualize and explore Earth’s landscape and physical processes. Available with multiple-choice and short answer questions. All Explorations include corresponding Google Earth KMZ media files, and questions include hints and specific wrong-answer feedback to help coach students toward mastery of the concepts.
• Map Projections media help reinforce and remediate students on basic but challenging early map projection concepts.

Help students see why physical geography is relevant to the real world

• Global Environmental Change features written by expert contributors provide brief case studies on critical issues related to environmental change.
• Practicing Geography references highlight geography and science being practiced in the real world, emphasizing people in scientific jobs, to help readers see job opportunities in geoscience, and to put a more human face to the topics and science.
• Have You Ever Wondered...? chapter-opening inquiries present familiar real-world phenomena related to the chapter and work with Big Questions and Seeing Geographically features, making the chapter opener a more engaging, active, and living introduction to the chapter.
• UPDATED! Energy for the 21st Century features, most written by expert contributors, provide balanced coverage of both renewable and non-renewable energy resources, authored by expert contributors.
• UPDATED! People & the Environment boxes, some written by expert contributors, discuss the effects of human activity on the environment.
• UPDATED! Focus features, many written by expert contributors, present in-depth case studies of special topics in physical geography.

Keep students actively engaged with active learning tools

• Environmental Analysis activities at the end of each chapter provide users with a higher-level application exercise, sending students outside of the book to analyze data and perform other higher-order learning tasks.
• UPDATED! Tasa Illustrations have been updated with the latest data and visually impactful presentations of physical geosciences processes:
• Hundreds of maps with shaded relief where appropriate.
• Line art with numerous multi-part photorealistic illustrations that capture sequence and evolution to help students understand various processes.
• Major photos paired with locator maps to enhance geographic literacy.
• UPDATED! Quick Response (QR) Codes link to video and animation resources as a means to provide students with just-in-time access to visualization media tied to major concepts.
• UPDATED! Seeing Geographically questions at the beginning and end of each chapter ask students to perform visual analysis and critical thinking to check their understanding of key chapter concepts and overcome any misconceptions.

Hallmark pedagogical features

• UPDATED! Key Questions work as chapter-specific learning outcomes that connect to Learning Checks, End of Chapter Questions, and Learning Outcomes in MasteringGeography.
• UPDATED! Learning Checks integrate review questions at the end of chapter sections, helping students check comprehension. All boxed features will now include Checkpoint questions.

• UPDATED! Review & Study Questions at the end of every chapter give students the practice they need to learn and master the material.

Also available with MasteringGeography^TMThis title is also available with MasteringGeography–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts.

• 20 Mobile Field Trip videos for geography from Michael Collier take students out into the landscape, providing an interactive avenue for exploring landscapes and the major themes of physical geography. The videos are QR-linked from the printed book, and are available for assignment with assessment in MasteringGeography.
• MapMaster 2.0 Interactive Map Activities are inspired by GIS, allowing students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. Now fully mobile, with enhanced analysis tools, students can geolocate themselves in the data and upload their own data for advanced map making and spatial data analysis. This tool includes zoom and annotation functionality, with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as the PRB, the World Bank, NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, the CIA, and more.
• Video Activities from sources such as the BBC, Financial Times, and Television for the Environment’s Life and Earth Report series provide students with applied real-world examples of physical geography in action, a sense of place, and allow students to explore a range of locations and topics.
• eText 2.0
• Full eReader functionality includes page navigation, search, glossary, highlighting, note taking, annotations, and more.  
• A responsive design allows the eText to reflow/resize to a device or screen. eText 2.0 now works on supported smartphones, tablets, and laptop/desktop computers.
• In-context glossary offers students instant access to definitions by simply hovering over key terms.
• Seamlessly integrated videos and activities allow students to watch and practice key concepts within the eText learning experience.
• Accessible (screen-reader ready).
• Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading mode.
• UPDATED! Geoscience Animations help students visualize the most challenging processes in the physical geosciences with schematic animations that include audio narration. Animations include assignable multiple-choice quizzes with specific wrong answer feedback to help guide students toward mastery of these core physical process concepts.
• UPDATED! GeoTutor Activities help students master the toughest physical geoscience concepts with highly visual, kinesthetic activities focused on critical thinking and the application of core geoscience concepts.