Laboratory Manual for Physical Geography, 1st Edition

by Alan H. Strahler (Boston Univ.)

• ISBN13: 9780471476702
• ISBN10: 0471476706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

* Minimal text. The author keeps descriptive text at a minimum, giving students more time to perform experiments, answer questions and write up lab reports. * 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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