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Earth Science
ISBN: 9780137655380 | 013765538X
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 6/1/1999
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Earth Science offers a reader-friendly overview of our physical environment for the reader with little or no exposure to science. The emphasis is on readability, with clear explanations and examples, superb illustrations by the renowned Dennis Tasa, and an incredible collection of full color photographs and topographical maps. Topics covered in this highly readable and interesting book are geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology. For readers needing a basic informational book about Earth Science.
| Introduction | |
| A view of earth | |
| The earth sciences | |
| Earth science and the environment | |
| The nature of scientific inquiry | |
| Studying earth science | |
| Earth as a System | |
| Earth's place in the cosmos | |
| Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks | |
| Carrot, karat, carat | |
| Gemstones | |
| ... MORE | |
| Asbestos: What are the risks? | |
| Weathering, Soil, and Mass Wasting | |
| Acid precipitation: A human impact on the earth system | |
| Laterites and the clearing of the rainforest | |
| The Gros Ventre slide: A classic case study | |
| Running Water and Groundwater | |
| The effects of urbanization on discharge | |
| The midwest floods of 1993 | |
| Dowsing for water | |
| Geothermal energy: An alternative | |
| Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind | |
| Do glaciers move? An application of the scientific method | |
| What if the ice melted? | |
| Common misconceptions about deserts | |
| Dust bowl: Soil erosion in the great plains | |
| Earthquakes and Earth's Interior | |
| Damaging earthquakes east of the Rockies | |
| Tsunami warning system | |
| Plate Tectonics | |
| A new test for plate tectonics | |
| Plate tectonics into the future | |
| The earth system: Plate tectonics and the rock cycle | |
| Igneous Activity | |
| The year without a summer | |
| Volcano sizes | |
| Volcanic activity and climate | |
| Mountain Building | |
| The San Andreas fault system | |
| Oil traps | |
| The Rocky Mountains | |
| Geologic Time | |
| Radon | |
| Earth History: A Brief Summary | |
| The great paleozoic extinction | |
| Farewell to the dinosaurs | |
| Ocean Waters and the Ocean Floor | |
| Evidence for the existence of turbidity currents | |
| Seafloor sediments and climatic change | |
| The Restless Ocean | |
| Tidal power | |
| Is global warming causing sea levels to rise? | |
| Composition, Structure, and Temperature | |
| Altering the atmosphere's composition: Sources and types of air pollution | |
| The ozone problem | |
| Solar energy | |
| Moisture | |
| Dry air at 100 percent relative humidity? | |
| Atmospheric stability influences air pollution | |
| Precipitation probability forecasts | |
| Air Pressure and Wind | |
| Scales of atmospheric motion | |
| Wind energy: An alternative with potential | |
| Weather Patterns and Severe Storms | |
| Lake-effect snow | |
| The deadliest weather | |
| Hurricane Andrew | |
| Climate | |
| The world's hottest and coldest places | |
| Precipitation records and mountainous terrain | |
| Climate change in cities | |
| Earth as a system: Climate feedback mechanisms | |
| Earth's Place in the Universe | |
| Proof for Earth's rotation | |
| Astrology | |
| Calendars | |
| Touring Our Solar System | |
| Venus and the runaway greenhouse effect: A lesson for planet Earth? | |
| The search for extraterrestrial intelligence | |
| Discovery of planet X | |
| Is Earth on a collision course? | |
| Comet Shoemaker Levy impacts Jupiter | |
| Light, Astronomical Observations, and the Sun | |
| The largest telescopes | |
| Variable sun and climate change | |
| Beyond Our Solar System | |
| Determining distance from magnitude | |
| Supernova 1987 A | |
| From stardust to you | |
| Metric and English Units Compared | |
| Mineral Identification Key | |
| Earth's Grid System | |
| Topographic Maps | |
| Star Charts | |
| World Soils | |
| Landforms of the Conterminous United States | |
| Periodic Table of the Elements | |
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