Description: On File "TM" is our award-winning collection of visual reference materials. Each On File "TM" depicts complex subjects in a way that both engages and informs students and researchers. These flexible resources fit into every curriculum.
-- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing.
-- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports.
-- On Files "TM" are available in either binder or electronic format.
-- All of the maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations are designed in clean black-and-white graphics and are printed on sturdy pages.
-- Pages are housed in durable three-ring binders.
-- Replacement pages are available if they are lost or stolen.

This revised and expanded edition of Earth Science On File "TM" now features a forty-eight-page supplement that includes a glossary of all terms in the text and a chronology of major achievements in Earth science, making it a one-stop reference for students and educators. Charts and diagrams of over 1,000 important concepts in geology, meteorology, and oceanography offer the most comprehensive collection of visuals on Earth science available.

Among the topics covered are:
-- Structure of the Sun
-- Lives of stars
-- Big Bang
-- Features of a glacier
-- Paleomagnetic dating
-- Greenhouse Effect.

The revised edition reflects major curricula and textbooks. It is an outstanding stand-alone reference and can also serve as a supplement to major texts used in high school and college Earth science courses.

Partial Table of Contents:

Earth and Space

Structure of the Sun

Hertzsprung-RussellDiagram

Lives of Stars

Galactic Nebulae

Big Bang and After

The Restless Rocks

Evolution of the Earth

Volcano: Types Compared

Plate Tectonics

Growth of the Hawaiian Islands

Earthquake Distribution

Air and Oceans

The Layered Atmosphere

The Beaufort Scale of Wind Speeds

Types of Cloud

Sea Ice

Atolls and Guyots

Shaping the Surface

Mechanical Weathering

Sand from Granite

Drainage Patterns

Permafrost in the Arctic

Earth History

Superposition

Radiometric Dating

Tree of Life

Mississippian Period

Pleistocene Epoch

Resources

World Population Increase

World Land Use

Soil Erosion

The Greenhouse Effect

Recycling Materials

Fossil Fuel Depletion

Maps, Tables, and Scales

Largest Islands

Largest Lakes (Surface Area)

Highest Waterfalls

Continents

Reference Pie Chart

Units of Length and Area

Weather Extremes.

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