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Planet Earth
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Introduction
1. Studying the Earth
2. Earth Systems
3. Earth in Space: the Solar System
4. The Atmosphere: What is it Made of?
5. Atmospheric Circulation
6. Weather
7. Water
8. Rivers, Lakes, and Landscapes
9. Water within the Geosphere: Groundwater
10. Ice
Jeff Kavanaugh; Britta Jensen; and John W.F. Waldron
11. Seas and Oceans
12. The Biosphere: What is Life?
13. Carbon, Energy, Metabolism
14. Ecology and Biogeography: How Energy Flows Through the Biosphere:
15. Structure and Growth of Living Organisms
16. Taxonomy, Evolution and the History of Life
17. What the Geosphere is Made of: Minerals
18. The Rock Cycle I: Magma and Igneous Rock
19. The Rock Cycle II: Sediment and Sedimentary Rock
20. The Rock Cycle III: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rock
21. Time and the Geosphere
22. The Tectonic System
23. Tectonic Settings and Earth Resources
24. Climate and Climate Change
Britta Jensen; Jeff Kavanaugh; and John W.F. Waldron
Very large and very small: numbers and units in Earth science
Maps: putting the Earth on paper or on screen
Glossary
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