for Cunningham and Cunningham
This site provides resources that support
Environmental Science, a Global Concern and
Principles of Environmental Science
Note that the primary purpose of this blog is to deliver resources, rather than to maintain daily updates. For the main book web sites, with quizzes, readings, and other resources, click here for A Global Concern 11e, or click here for Principles 6e. Other excellent blogs can keep you up to date on current issues in environmental science. We provide links for some of those below, and we encourage you to keep yourself informed of current events!
Google Earth Placemarks
Don’t just read about it. Take a look at it.
Geographic Placemarks to accompany Cunningham and Cunningham, Environmental Science:
Download placemarks for Principles of Environmental Science 6th edition
(click here for answers to questions on placemarks)
Download placemarks for Environmental Science, A Global Concern: 11th edition
(click here for answers to placemark questions)
Click Here to download Google Earth (free earth viewing software for Mac or PC)
Click here for help getting started with Google Earth
Or click here (GE user guide)
Google Earth allows you to easily see places that illustrate problems and processes in environmental science. The images at right were taken from Google Earth.
You can zoom and pan to see the context that helps you understand places you read about.
Looking at these places isn’t just fun: it’s also helpful for understanding your readings. Placemarks show you examples of places that exhibit important concepts or events or processes in environmental science.
We provide some questions, which vary: some are easy and others may require serious thought. Some simply identify locations, which is an important step for understanding places in the world. Other questions ask you to consider the broad meaning of a problem. Many may be useful for class discussions.
Note that there are many Layers available with Google Earth. Some of these are helpful and provide boundaries, place names, or city locations. Many can be turned off to reduce clutter: just uncheck boxes in the Layers list. For example, the Geographic Web includes photos that other users have uploaded. You may find these interesting to peruse, or you can turn off the Geographic Web layer.
Quiz questions in McGraw-Hill’s ARIS testing system are available here for the 10th edition of A Global Concern or here for the 11th edition.
Click here for help getting started with Google Earth
Additional Placemarks in the Google Earth Community and web sites:
An Education community for Google Earth
An Environmental community for Google Earth
Vassar College GIS blog
Blogs and news sites reporting on topics in Environmental Science:
James Hanson's climate blog
Andy Revkin's dot earth blog (from New York Times)
Climate Progress.org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC--lots of data, images, reports)
Google Earth climate change movies, related to the Copenhagen Conference, December 2009, narrated by Al Gore. (These include a plug-in for GE)
Data.gov (a multitude of federal government data resources)
Environment News Service
Grist
Special thanks to Meg Stewart for inspiring this undertaking.
