Physical Geography

By Andy Palmer
April 2010
Hodder Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781444107814
100 pages

$13.95 Paper Original

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Table of Contents:
Plate Tectonics, Rocks, Weathering & Glaciation
1 Acid cone volcano
2 Collision margin or boundary
3 Composite cone or strato-volcano
4 Conservative plate margin or boundary
5 Constructive plate margin or boundary
6 Destructive plate margin or boundary
7 Earthquake
8 Shield volcano
9 Volcanic hazards
10 Volcano
11 Glacier
12 Basal sliding (slippage)
13 Cirque (or corrie)
14 Esker
15 Fluvioglacial deposition
16 Glacial deposition
17 Glacial erosion
18 Glacial transportation
19 Glacial trough
20 Ice wedge
21 Internal movement
22 Kame
23 Mass balance
24 Moraine
25 Patterned ground
26 Periglacial
27 Permafrost
28 Pingo
29 Ribbon lake
30 Roche moutonnée
31 Drumlin
32 Weathering
33 Tides
34 Waves
Rivers & Coasts
35 Beach
36 Beach profile
37 The coast
38 Cave, arch, stack and stump
39 Cliff and wave-cut platform
40 Coral reef
41 Cuspate foreland
42 Factors influencing rates of marine erosion
43 Headlands and bays
44 Longshore drift
45 Long-term sea-level fall
46 Long-term sea-level rise
47 Marine deposition
48 Marine erosion
49 Onshore bar
50 Spit
51 Delta
52 Wave characteristics
53 Wave refraction
54 Fluvial depositional landforms
55 Discharge
56 Drainage basin
57 Fluvial erosional landforms
58 Fluvial deposition
59 Fluvial erosion
60 Global hydrological cycle
61 Meander
62 Rejuvenation
63 River flooding
64 Storm hydrograph
65 Stream/river velocity
66 Braided channel
67 Channel efficiency
68 Channel variables
Weather, Climate & Ecosystems
69 Biodiversity
70 Ecosystem
71 Gersmehl’s model
72 Energy flow
73 Productivity
74 Trophic structure
75 Succession
76 Halosere
77 Psammosere
78 Prisere
79 Temperate deciduous forest
80 Temperate grassland
81 Tropical grassland
82 Weather
83 Anticyclone
84 El Niño
85 Global warming
86 Tropical cyclone
87 Depression
88 Climate
89 Jet streams
90 Weather forecast
91 Forecast failure
92 Urban microclimate
93 Seasonality
94 Aridity
95 Aeolian processes
96 Aeolian landforms
97 Fluvial landforms (arid environments)
98 Xerophytic vegetation
99 Desertification
100 Fragile arid ecosystems