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How Are the Wiley Visualizing

Chapters Organized?

Student engagement requires more than just providing visuals, text, and interactivity—it entails motivating
students to learn. Student engagement can be behavioral, cognitive, social, and/or emotional. It is easy to
get bored or lose focus when presented with large amounts of information, and it is easy to lose motivation
when the relevance of the information is unclear. Wiley Visualizing reorganizes course content into
manageable learning objectives and relates it to everyday life.

The content in Wiley Visualizing is organized into learning modules. Each module has a clear instructional
objective, one or more examples, and an opportunity for assessment. These modules are the building
blocks of Wiley Visualizing.

Each Wiley Visualizing chapter engages students

from the start

Chapter opening text and visuals introduce the subject and connect the student with the material that
follows.

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Global Atmospheric

Changes

MELTING ICE AND RISING SEA LEVELS

Pglacial ice diminished by 14 m (46 ft) from 1955 to 2005 (see graph). owerful evidence that Earth is warming comes from the melting of continental and polar ice. Globally, the mean thickness of

In 2002, an iceberg roughly twice the size of Rhode Island broke off from the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic ice pack has retreated and

thinned, losing 40 percent of its volume since 1980.The Muir Glacier in Alaska was once enormous, with a huge

vertical front from which icebergs calved into Glacier Bay. Today, the Muir Glacier has shrunk to a fraction of its former size (see

photograph, taken in 2004; the inset shows approximately the same location in 1903).

Within the scientific community, the question is no longer whether Human-caused climate change is an established phenomenon.

climate change will occur. Rather, we are concerned about how and whether we can reduce the rate of changes that have already

begun, and prepare for those changes we cannot avoid. The biggest culprit in climate change is an increase in atmospheric

carbon dioxide (COburning of fossil fuels. 2 ), which is generated primarily through the

atmospheric changes: climate change, ozone depletion, and In this chapter we examine the challenges of global

acid deposition. Changes in economics, politics, energy use, agriculture, and human behavior will be necessary to address

these issues.

Interpreting DataDoes this reduction appear to

be constant, accelerating, or decelerating? Explain.

CHAPTER PLANNER

Study the picture and read the opening story.Scan the Learning Objectives in each section:

p. 218 Read the text and study all figures and visuals. p. 222 p. 231 p. 234

Answer any questions.

Analyze key features:

Process Diagram, p. 219 What a Scientist Sees, p. 221 p. 224

Environmental InSight, p. 228 EnviroDiscovery, p. 233 p. 232 p. 236

Case Study, p. 238 Stop: Answer the Concept Checks before you go on:

p. 221 p. 230 p. 233 p. 238

End of Chapter:

Review the Summary and Key Terms.Answer What is happening in this picture?

Answer the Critical and Creative Thinking Questions.

graphingactivity

CHAPTER OUTLINE

The Atmosphere and Climate  Solar Radiation and Climate 218

 PrecipitationWhat a Scientist Sees: Rain Shadow

Global Climate Change  Causes of Global Climate Change 222

 Effects of Global Climate ChangeEnvironmental InSight: The Effects of Global

 Climate ChangeDealing with Global Climate Change: Mitigation

and Adaptation

Ozone Depletion in the Stratosphere  Causes of Ozone Depletion 231

 Effects of Ozone DepletionEnvironmental InSight: The Ozone Layer

EnviroDiscovery: Links Between Climate and Atmospheric Change

 Reversing Ozone Layer Thinning

Acid Deposition  How Acid Deposition Develops 234

 Effects of Acid DepositionThe Politics of Acid Deposition

 Facilitating Recovery from Acid DepositionEnvironmental InSight: The Effects of Acid

DepositionCase Study: International Implications of Global

Climate Change

Molnia, Bruce F. 2004 Muir Glacier: From the Glacier Photograph Collection. Boulder, ColoradoUSA: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. Digital Media.

The Chapter Outline

anticipates the content

The Chapter Planner gives students

a path through the learning aids in the

chapter. Throughout the chapter, the

Planner icon prompts students to use

the learning aids and to set priorities

as they study.

Narratives are featured

alongside striking

photographs.