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xxviii The Water, Weather, and Climate Systems MasteringGeographyTM
MasteringGeography delivers engaging, dynamic learning opportunities—focusing on course objectives and responsive to each student’s progress—that are proven to help students absorb geography course material and understand difficult physical processes and geographic concepts.
Visualize the Processes and Landscapes That Form Earth’s Physical Environment
c Encounter Activities provide rich, interactive explorations of geography concepts using the dynamic features of Google EarthTM to visualize and explore Earth’s physical landscape. 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.
b Geoscience Animations illuminate the most difficult- to-visualize topics from across the physical geosciences, such as solar system formation, hydrologic cycle, plate tectonics, glacial advance and retreat, global warming, etc. Animations include audio narration, a text transcript, and assignable multiple-choice quizzes with specific wrong-answer feedback to help guide students toward mastery of these core physical process concepts. Icons integrated throughout the text indicate to students when they can login to the Study Area of MasteringGeography to access the animations.