Physical geography : a landscape appreciation / Tom L. McKnight, Darrel Hess.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to earth -- Portraying earth -- Introduction to the atmosphere -- Insolation and temperature -- Atmospheric pressure and wind -- Atmospheric moisture -- Transient atmospheric flows and disturbances -- Climatic zones and types -- The hydrosphere -- Cycles and patterns in the biosphere -- Terrestrial flora and fauna -- Soils -- Introduction to landform study -- The internal processes -- Preliminaries to erosion: weathering and mass wasting -- The fluvial processes -- Solution processes and Karst topography -- The topography of arid lands -- Glacial modification of terrain -- Coastal processes and terrain.