Geosystems Animation Edition (5th Edition)

By Robert W. Christopherson

Book Overview

Geosystems is written, organized, and illustrated to give new learners an accessible, systematic, and visually appealing start in the study of physical geography. This edition includes the brand new Geography Animations CD. A four-part organization of chapter covers the energy-atmosphere system; the water, weather, and climate systems; the earth-atmosphere interface; and soils, ecosystems, and biomes. For individuals with an interest in physical geography. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131441965
• ISBN13: 9780131441965
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Geosystems

This is a really nice book and goes into detail. I need this book for class and I really like the class. The only suggestion that I have is asking your professor if you need the 7th edition or if you can use the 6th, there is little difference between the two books. My professor told me after I had already purchased this book that I could have used the 6th edition and saved lots of money. Overall great book!!

A well done text. Top notch photos and diagrams.

I thought this was well organized and easy to understand for the most part. There were only a few parts (pages, really) that were sort of ho-hum. The diagrams and photos were top notch and really went well with the text. This text would be interesting to read just for the sake of it. I don't have another text to compare it to, which I imagine is a good thing. I've had other texts that were so bad that I only used them...

Schoolbook with pleasant pictures

I know I bought this book for a class I'm taking and while the data is something I need to learn what I really like about this book is all the beautiful photography both in the book and in the accompaning CD have on them. The authors wife is a professional photographer and he uses that to illustrate the concepts with asthetics. Is the book a bit of a hard read? Yes but again it's a college level textbook so this isn't surprising...

A textbook to keep for a lifetime

I am a Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Barbara and relied heavily on Christopherson's text through 2 quarters of introductory physical geography. The book succeeds in its mission: it clearly explains the fundamental principles of the Earth's interacting atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, and it does so in a geographic context. The theme of interacting systems holds the material together, allowing students...