Includes index.

Contents: Physical geography and the tools geographers use -- The Earth as a rotating planet -- The Earth's global energy balance -- Air temperature -- Atmospheric moisture and precipitation -- Winds and global circulation -- Weather systems -- Global climates and climate change -- Biogeographic processes -- Global geography -- Global soils -- Earth materials and plate tectonics -- Tectonic and volcanic landforms -- Weathering and mass wasting -- Freshwater of the continents -- Landforms made by running water -- Landforms made by waves and wind -- Glacial and periglacial landforms -- Climate definitions and boundaries -- Conversion factors -- Topographic map symbols --