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| Introduction to Earth Science | |
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| What Is Earth Science? | |
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| Using the Scientific Method | |
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| Earth System Science | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: Island or Open System | |
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| Earth in Space | |
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| The Solar System | |
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| The Terrestrial Planets | |
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| What Makes Earth Unique? | |
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| Humans and Earth | |
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| Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources | |
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| Why Study Earth Science? | |
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| Amazing Places: Earth | |
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| Minerals: Earth's Building Blocks | |
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| Minerals, Elements, and Compounds | |
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| Elements, Atoms, and Ions | |
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| Compounds, Molecules, and Bonding | |
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| What Is a Mineral? | |
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| Composition of Minerals | |
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| Telling Minerals Apart | |
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| CASE STUDY: Minerals for Adornment | |
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| Mineral Families | |
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| Minerals of Earth's Crust | |
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| Silicates: The Most Important Rock Formers | |
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| Mineral Resources | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: Living in a Mineral World | |
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| Amazing Places: The Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
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| Rocks: Keepers Of Earth's History | |
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| Rocks: A First Look | |
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| The Three Rock Families | |
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| The Rock Cycle | |
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| Igneous Rocks | |
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| Rate of Cooling | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: Putting Rocks Under a Microscope | |
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| Chemical Composition | |
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| Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Clastic Sediments and Clastic Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Lithification of Clastic Sediment | |
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| Chemical Sediments and Chemical Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: A Change in the Atmosphere | |
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| Biogenic sediments and Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Rock Beds | |
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| Interpreting Environmental Clues | |
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| Sedimentary Facies | |
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| CASE STUDY: Sedimentary Facies and the History of Humankind Metamorphic Rocks | |
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| The Limits of Metamorphism | |
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| The Importance of Stress | |
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| Rocks as Resources | |
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| Rocks as Construction Materials | |
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| Mineral Resources in Igneous Rocks | |
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| Mineral Resources in Chemical and Biogenic Sedimentary Rocks | |
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| Gold in Metamorphic Rocks | |
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| Amazing Places: The Navajo Sandstone | |
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| Weathering, Soils, and Mass Wasting | |
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| Weathering: The Earth System at Work | |
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| Weathering: How Rocks Disintegrate? | |
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| Mechanical Weathering: Breaking Rocks Apart | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: Joint Formation | |
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| Chemical Weathering: Breaking Rocks by Chemistry | |
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| Factors Affecting Weathering | |
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| Soil: The Most Important Product of Weathering | |
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| Soil | |
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| Soil Profiles | |
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| Factors that Influence Soil Formation | |
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| CASE STUDY: Bad and Good Soil | |
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| Erosion and Mass Wasting: Gravity at Work | |
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| Erosion by Water | |
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| Erosion by Wind | |
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| Erosion by Ice | |
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| Gravity and Mass Wasting | |
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| Tectonics and Mass Wasting | |
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| Resources Formed by Weathering and Erosion | |
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| Resources Formed by Chemical Weathering | |
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| Resources Formed by Erosion | |
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| Amazing Places: Monadnock-and Monadnocks | |
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| Water on and Under the Ground | |
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| The Hydrologic Cycle | |
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| Water in the Earth System | |
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| How Water Affects the Land | |
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| Streams and Streamflow | |
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| Stream Deposits | |
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| Large-scale Topography of Stream Systems | |
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| WHAT AN EARTH SCIENTIST SEES: Drainage Basins Lakes | |
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| Surface Water as a Hazard and Resource | |
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| Floods | |
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| Surface Water Resources | |
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| Global Irrigation and Industrial Water Consumption | |
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| CASE STUDY: California's Mono Lake, in the Sierra Nevada | |
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| Fresh Water Underground | |
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| The Water Table | |
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| How Groundwater Moves | |
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| Where Groundwater is Stored | |
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| Groundwater Depletion and Contamination | |
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| When Groundwater Dissolves Rock | |
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| Amazing Places: Lechuguilla Cave | |
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| Extreme Climatic Regions: Deserts, Glaciers, and ICE Sheets | |
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| Deserts and Drylands | |
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| Types of Deserts | |
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| Wind Erosion | |
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| Wind Deposits and Desert Landforms | |
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| Stream Erosion and Deposition in Deserts | |
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| Desertification | |
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| Glaciers and Ice Sheets | |
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| Components of the<$$$> | |