Physical Geography Laboratory Manual for McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation - Softcover

Physical Geography Laboratory Manual for McKnight's Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, Eleventh Edition offers a comprehensive set of lab exercises to accompany any physical geography class. The manual is organized to meet your needs, providing the flexibility to pick and choose a series of short lab exercises each week. Lab exercises incorporate Google Earth (TM) explorations and provide review of concepts such as Doppler Radar and Continental Glaciation, while more than 40 QR codes now link you to a variety of media resources including Google Earth videos, color topographic maps and images and satellite movie loops. Also new to this edition is a lab on soils, and a field GIS lab exercise. High quality color stereoscope images and aerial photographs are now included in lab manual to give you an integrated picture of locations and landforms.

Darrel Hess is professor of geography at City College of San Francisco, where he served as chair of the Earth Sciences department from 1995-2009. He regularly teaches physical geography, economic geography, and human geography. Hess received his B.A. in geography from UC Berkeley and his M.A. in geography from UCLA. Before graduate school he served in the Peace Corps in Korea, and before teaching full-time he worked as a writer, photographer, and audiovisual producer. Hess served as T.A. to Tom McKnight at UCLA. He began working with McKnight and Pearson as author of the text's Study Guide starting in the Fourth Edition and as author for the Lab Manual starting in the Fifth Edition. He became a full time co-author of the Ninth Edition, and became sole author of the Tenth Edition. Hess has contributed to the development of the Geoscience Animation Library and has partnered with many geoscience teachers and writers in the development of the CA edition.