This best-selling physical geology text emphasizes the theme of dynamic change to help students better understand our environment, landscapes, climate, and resources. Dynamic Earth, Fifth Edition introduces plate tectonics and the Earth system early in the text, giving students a sense of how earth processes and systems are interrelated. Both plate tectonics and the Earth system are revisited in a boxed section at the end of each chapter. Instructors who adopt the text will have access to an electronic image bank that includes all line art from the book, numerous animations, and hundreds of photographs.

* Meet Planet Earth!
* Global Tectonics: Our Dynamic Planet
* Atoms, Elements, Minerals
* Igneous Rocks: Products of Earth?s Internal Fire
* Magmas and Volcanoes
* Weathering and Soils
* Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks: Archives of Earth History
* Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks: New Rocks from Old
* How Rock Bends, Buckles, and Breaks
* Earthquakes and Earth's Interior
* Geologic Time and the Rock Record
* The Changing Face of the Land
* Mass Wasting
* Streams and Drainage Systems
* Groundwater
* Glaciers and Glaciation
* Atmosphere, Winds, and Deserts
* The Oceans and Their Margins
* Climate and our Changing Planet
* The Earth Through Time
* Resources of Minerals and Energy