Table of Contents

Our place in the sun; the Earth's global energy balance; air temperature; atmospheric moisture and precipitation; winds and global circulation; weather systems; global climates; global vegetation; global soils; earth materials; the lithosphere and plate tectonics; volcanic and tectonic landforms; weathering and mass wasting; fresh water of the continents; landforms made by running water; landforms and rock structure; landforms made by waves and wind; glacial landforms and the Ice Age.