Organize
Learn
Connect
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Earth: Portrait of a Planet
StudySpace
Quick Start Instructions
StudySpace provides a set of online resources that will help you best utilize your text and study for your class, grouped into three logical steps:
1. Organize:
If you start out with “the big picture” it’s less likely you’ll get lost in the details and miss the point of it all.- Study Plans highlight the learning tools built into each chapter of your textbook and its associated media resources.
- Guides to Reading provide an overview of the major ideas introduced in each chapter. Review the Guide before you read the chapter.
2. Learn:
Because people learn in different ways, there are a variety of activities to help you test your knowledge and apply what you have learned.
- Read the assigned chapter in your textbook or ebook. Then it's not a bad idea to reread the Guides to Reading afterwards as a review of those important concepts you should have grasped.
- Diagnostic Quizzes for each chapter will help you identify which parts of the text you need to review more, and give you instant feedback on right and wrong answers.
- Over 60 Animations show certain figures and processes in action so you can get a better sense of how the concepts work.
- Flashcards help you review key terms in each chapter so you can put them to use later on.
3. Connect:
Geology literally means “study of the earth.” This course covers a lot of material, but if you get a good grasp of it in return you’ll have a better understanding of your world and a deeper appreciation for how awesome a place Earth really is.
- 23 Geotours help you visually connect what you are learning with the world around you, with questions to make you analyze what you see.
- Feature Articles by Stephen Marshak and others comment on particular topics of interest.
- Geology in the News features current news related to geology, updated regularly.
Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Third Edition, is also available in a Norton ebook format—same great content, half the price.
The Earth ebook offers the actual book pages with a variety of tools for study and review, including sticky notes, highlighters, zoomable images, links to the animations and Geotours, and the ability to electronically search the entire text. Accessible at any time on the web, the ebook is directly linked to StudySpace's resources, incorporating many of its interactive elements. The ebook is also available in PDF format. Visit nortonebooks.com for more information.