Description
PEARSON INDIA Foundations Of Earth Science 8Th Edition by Frederick K Lutgens and Edward J Tarbuck and Dennis G Tasa
Digital Content and Experiences Bring Earth Science To Life
Ideal for undergraduates with little or no science background, Foundations of Earth Science provides a student-friendly, highly visual, non-technical survey of our physical environment with balanced, up-to-date coverage of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. Foundations of Earth Science is the brief, paperback version of the best-selling Earth Science by Lutgens and Tarbuck, and designed for introductory courses in Earth science. The new 8th Edition facilitates active learning by incorporating learning objectives throughout each chapter to provide students with a structured learning path. The learning path is tied to chapter objectives, giving students opportunities to demonstrate their understanding at the end of each section.
Table of Content:
Introduction to Earth Science
Unit I EARTH MATERIALS
1. Matter and Minerals
2. Rocks: Materials of the Solid Earth
Unit II SCULPTURING EARTH'S SURFACE
3. Landscapes Fashioned by Water
4. Glacial and Arid Landscapes
Unit III FORCES WITHIN
5. Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds
6. Restless Earth: Earthquakes and Mountain Building
7. Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
Unit IV DECIPHERING EARTH'S HISTORY
8. Geologic Time
Unit V THE GLOBAL OCEAN
9. Oceans: The Last Frontier
10. The Restless Ocean
Unit VI EARTH'S DYNAMIC ATMOSPHERE
11. Heating the Atmosphere
12. Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation
13. The Atmosphere in Motion
14. Weather Patterns and Severe Weather
Unit VII EARTH'S PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
15. The Nature of the Solar System
16. Beyond the Solar System
Salient Features:
Bringing the textbook to life
NEW! Using augmented reality, Pearson's BouncePages app launches engaging, interactive video and animations that bring the pages of Foundations of Earth Science to life.
Students use their mobile device to scan a pre-tagged Pearson textbook figure, and an animation, video, or interactive tutorial illustrating the figure's concept launches immediately. No slow Web sites or hard-to-remember logins required.
By scanning figures associated with the BouncePages icon, students are immediately connected to the digital world and can deepen their learning experience with the printed text.
Many of the pages also include hands-on practice opportunities for students to directly apply what they just learned.
There are also short URLs in the caption of each SmartFigure, ensuring that students who may not own a mobile device can access the digital learning objects.
NEW! BouncePage SmartFigure links throughout the text include:
SmartFigure Condor Videos use a quadcopter with a GoPro camera mounted to film 10 key geologic locations and processes. These process-oriented videos are designed to bring the field to the classroom or dorm room and improve the learning experience.
Mobile Field Trips, which accompany geologist-pilot-photographer Michael Collier in the air and on the ground, enable students to see and learn about iconic landscapes that relate to discussions in the chapter.
Brief SmartFigure Animations, created by text illustrator Dennis Tasa, animate a process or concept depicted in the textbook's figures. This technology allows students to view moving figures rather than static art to depict how a geologic process truly moves throughout time.
SmartFigure Tutorials are sophisticated, annotated illustrations that are also narrated videos.