Welcome to the StudySpace demo for Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Fourth Edition! This site is designed to help you succeed in your course, offering reading guides, diagnostic quizzes, videos and animations, Science and Society features, and vocabulary flashcards, plus links to the Earth ebook and the SmartWork online homework system.
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Feature Demos
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SmartWork
SmartWork is an online homework system that provides you with feedback right when you need it. The system features many easy-to-use question types, including highly visual questions that make use of book art and Steve Marshak’s “What a Geologist Sees’ concept.
Google Earth
Go on virtual field trips with Google Earth. Two downloadable kmz files provide access to the “See for Yourself” sites discussed in the textbook and the sites discussed in the GeoTours Workbook. Amazing flyovers and embedded videos bring the magic of these carefully selected sites to life.
Quiz+
Diagnostic quizzes for each chapter let you know how you’re doing—and provide you with a custom study plan, linking you to the resources that will help you master material you might not know.
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Animations & Videos
Animations—developed by Steve Marshak himself—will help you visualize key geologic processes. Streaming video from the USGS then brings those concepts to life.
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