Earth Sciences Software

Earth’s Atmosphere and It’s Seasons CD-ROM - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-15 $130.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-15MU $260.00 ADD TO CART

Earth’s Atmosphere and It's Season's helps students investigate and understand the causes
of the seasons, Earth-Sun relationships, and more

Earth’s Atmosphere and It's Season's helps students investigate and understand the causes of the seasons, Earth-Sun relationships, the composition of the atmosphere, Sun’s role as the main source of energy that drives weather and climate, the greenhouse effect, and more. Clear, narrated explanations along with thought-provoking review questions and lab activities, a visual index, clickable glossary, colourful animations, and video clips provide a fun way to learn many important lessons about weather and climate.

Your students will investigate: 

• Different types of weather and how it impacts them. 
• Differences between weather and climate. 
• The composition of air, and the important roles of water vapour and carbon dioxide. 
• Why we have seasons. 
• Earth’s motions and orientation in relation to the Sun. 
• Why the amount of solar energy received on Earth varies for different latitudes. 
• The nature of solar radiation. paths taken by solar radiation. 
• The greenhouse effect. how colour influences the amount of light reflected by a surface. 
• How to convert Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures. why land and water heat up and cool off differently. 
• How ocean currents, altitude, and prevailing winds influence temperature.

An Introduction to Structural Methods CD-ROM - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-8 $160.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-8MU $310.00 ADD TO CART

An Introduction to Structural Methods, narrated by the authors, is richly illustrated with animations, 3-D diagrams, geologic maps, and photographs all in full colour offering a new approach to teaching structural geology.

A useful tool for your classroom, this CD-ROM improves students' spatial reasoning skills while applying structural concepts and techniques. It also provides interactive quizzes that test students' comprehension of key concepts and terminology while encouraging their mastery of techniques working with the types of problems they will likely confront as practicing geologists.

Table of Contents

• Elements of Lines and Planes
• Map Interpretation: Simple Planar Surfaces
• Stereographic Projection I
• Constructing Geologic Sections
• Map Interpretation: Faults
• Stereographic Projection II
• Map Interpretation: Folds
• Map Interpretation: Unconformities, Intrusions
• Map Interpretation: Thrust Faults
• Fold Analysis
• Stress, Fracture, and Fault Analysis
• Strain: Basic Principles

Earth's Dynamic Surface CD-ROM - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-9 $130.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-9MU $260.00 ADD TO CART

Earth's Dynamic Surface goes in-depth into the study
of the processes that shape the Earth's surface.

From the origin to the end result, each chapter covers a specific change in Earth's surface features. Review sections at the end of each chapter provide a check of learning comprehension.

Interactive activities, such as creating river systems, integrate learning and promotes scientific inquiry. The Physiographic Province Tour takes students on a trip across the U.S. with stops at 42 National Parks and points of interest, including website links to each National Park appearing in the tour.

Table of Contents

• Weathering and Soils - examines the two types of weathering processes and soil development throughout a landscape.
• Hill slopes - covers the interaction of rock-type and climate in the erosion of a landscape.
• Rivers - discusses flowing water as a process for erosion, transportation, and deposition of Earth's surface materials.
• Coastlines - examines the power of wind, waves, tides, and currents to shape unique landforms.
• Groundwater - covers the development of landforms due to flowing water below Earth's surface.
• Desert and Wind - discusses changing landscapes due to the erosion, transportation, and deposition of surface material by wind.
• Glaciers - examines the process of flowing ice in the development of landforms.

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TASA Mineral Photo CD-ROM - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-11 $110.00 ADD TO CART

We have hunted far and wide to create a collection of photo CD-ROMs offering a variety of earth science photographs based on the National Science Education Standards to supplement your lectures, labs, and activities. Each CD-ROM offers 100 photographs in two sizes for use with your Macintosh or Windows operating system. Licenced for personal and/or classroom use only, not to be published for public use. Use the new viewer feature to view, select, and save the images you will use.

Each image is available with or without captions to enable you to customize your use of the images. Click here to view a list of the samples and their captions. Includes 100 mineral specimens from the Harvard Mineralogical Museum selected as the most commonly used classroom hand samples. 

Great for use with PowerPoint ® presentations! Use in conjunction with the TASA Portfolio CD-ROMs to create a dynamic presentation. High resolution JPEG Format for Windows and Macintosh. Sizes: 1024 x 768, 640 x 480

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TASA Tectonics & Mountain Building Photo CD-ROM - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-14 $110.00 ADD TO CART

We have hunted far and wide to create a collection of photo CD-ROMs offering a variety of earth science photographs based on the National Science Education Standards to supplement your lectures, labs, and activities. Each CD-ROM offers 100 photographs in two sizes for use with your Macintosh, or Windows operating system. Licenced for personal and/or classroom use only, not to be published for public use. Use the new viewer feature to view, select, and save the images you will use.

Each image is available with or without captions to enable you to customize your use of the images. Click here to view a list of the samples and their captions. Includes photos showing numerous tectonic features such as angular unconformities, faults, folds, grabens, joints, nonconformities, synclines, anticlines, unconformities, and more.

Great for use with PowerPoint ® presentations! Use in conjunction with the TASA Portfolio CD-ROM's to create a dynamic presentation. High resolution JPEG Format for Windows and Macintosh. Sizes: 1024 x 768, 640 x 480.

Introduction to Topographic Maps - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-2 $130.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-2MU $260.00 ADD TO CART

With Introduction to Topographic Maps the user will learn how to read and draw contour lines based on points of known elevations, construct topographic profiles, and determine slope and relief. By actually performing tasks and solving problems, the user gets truly involved in using a topographic map. 

The "lesson" can be used in two different modes: as a self contained instructional program using the electronic map version only, or with the click of a button the program can be used with your own regional topographic map, where you'll answer additional questions and perform tasks directed towards your area.

• General Topographic Map Information
• Map Scale
• Location: Latitude and Longitude
• Public Land Survey
• Location: Universal Transverse Mercator
• Principles of Contour Lines
• Using Contour Lines
• Topographic Profiles
• Drawing a Contour Map
• Topographic Maps
• Aerial Photographs
• Satellite Images
• Review

The Theory of Plate Tectonics - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-3 $130.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-3MU $260.00 ADD TO CART

The Theory of Plate Tectonics forms the framework from which to view the majority of other geologic processes. You will examine the evidence which lead to the theory, control 3-D models of the Earth from 200 million years ago to the present, and actually see the effects of plate collision and sea floor spreading, and much more.

Through high quality animated sequences, in-depth text, photos and colour graphics, you will experience the theory of plate tectonics as never before. Includes reviews questions and activities, illustrated glossary, and locater maps. The program also includes a geologic time scale to explore, as well as news flashes to demonstrate how the forces of plate tectonics can affect our lives.

• The Earth's Interior
• Continental Drift
• Fit of the Continents
• Fossil Evidence
• Evidence from Rocks
• Paleo-climatic Evidence
• Continental Drift and Paleo-magnetism
• Sea Floor Spreading
• Plate Tectonics, Plate Boundaries
• Transform Fault Boundaries
• Testing the Plate Model
• Geomagnetic Reversals and Plate Tectonics
• Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
• Hot Spots and Plate Tectonics
• The Driving Mechanism
• Plate Tectonics into the Future

Plate Tectonics and How the Earth Works - Wins   Mac Single User Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-7 $160.00 ADD TO CART Multi-User - up to 20 Shipped in 7 days Cat.# TG-7MU $310.00 ADD TO CART

This interactive program is designed to aid advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the geological sciences in visualising and learning about processes within the Earth and how these processes are related to plate tectonics. Using animations, interactive diagrams, and colour photos, new and exciting developments are reviewed relating to plate reconstructions in the past, hotspots, mantle plumes, seismic discontinuities in the mantle, and super-continent cycles. 

Also included is a graphic portrayal of the crust (both oceanic and continental), mantle, and core, as well as recent ideas as to how Earth systems interact with each other. In addition, the student can examine each of the major tectonic settings on Earth as well as track these settings into the past, some as far back as 4 Ga.

Contents: Plate Tectonics: General Features, Structure of the Earth, Subduction Zones, The Wilson Cycle, Magnetic Anomalies on the Seafloor, Apparent Polar Wander Paths, Hotspots, Organic Evolution and Plate Tectonics , The History of Pangaea , Interactive Earth Systems Review, The Earth's Crust: Crustal Types, Heat Flow, Exhumation and Cratonisation, Rheology of the Continental Crust, Measured Seismic Wave Velocities in Rocks, Sampling of the Lower Continental Crust, Chemical Composition of the Crust, Terranes and Crustal Provinces, Review Tectonic Settings: Introduction, Ophiolites, Mantle-Plume-Related Tectonic Settings, Cratons and Passive Margins, Continental Rifts, Convergent Margins, Orogens, Anorogenic Granites, Archean Greenstones, Mineral Deposits, Energy Deposits, Review, The Earth's Mantle and Core: Seismic Structure of the Mantle, Geoid Anomalies, Composition of the Mantle, The Lithosphere, The Deep Mantle, Mantle Plumes, Upwellings, Hotspots, and Super-continents, Mantle Geochemical Components, Mantle Convection, The Core, Review. Includes Glossary.