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Author: Glencoe McGraw-Hill Staff
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Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780078781223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYour Teacher Classroom Resources includes: Lab Manual TE Fast File Chapter Resources Science Notebook TAE Exploring Environmental Problems TE Performance Assessment in the Science Classroom Performance Assessment in the Earth Science Classroom Standardized Test Practice TAE Laboratory Management and Safety in the Science Classroom ELL Strategies for Science
Author: McGraw Hill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-01-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780076587131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlencoe Earth Science brings alive the forces that shape the world and engages students of all levels. Whether you're looking for a textbook-based program, a fully digital curriculum, or something in between, Glencoe Earth Science gives you the groundwork to help you bring the wonders of our world down to earth. The print student edition of Glencoe Earth Science is designed to support a broad range of learners and build 21st century skills through inquiry and problem solving.
Author: Robin George Andrews
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0393542076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system’s strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes. Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms the landscape, and noxious volcanic gases that poison the atmosphere, volcanoes have threatened life on Earth countless times in our planet’s history. Yet despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet. A lively and utterly fascinating guide to these geologic wonders, Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earthbound and otherwise—and recounts the daring and sometimes death-defying careers of the scientists who study them. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong, describing the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Walking us through the mechanics of some of the most infamous eruptions on Earth, Andrews outlines what we know about how volcanoes form, erupt, and evolve, as well as what scientists are still trying to puzzle out. How can we better predict when a deadly eruption will occur—and protect communities in the danger zone? Is Earth’s system of plate tectonics, unique in the solar system, the best way to forge a planet that supports life? And if life can survive and even thrive in Earth’s extreme volcanic environments—superhot, superacidic, and supersaline surroundings previously thought to be completely inhospitable—where else in the universe might we find it? Traveling from Hawai‘i, Yellowstone, Tanzania, and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus, and Mars, Andrews illuminates the cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.
Author: Holmes Rolston III
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-04-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 113663990X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it. A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment. Rolston, an early and leading pioneer in studying the moral relationship between humans and the earth, surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics. This book, however, is not simply a judicious overview. Instead, it offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts and draws on a lifetime of research and experience to suggest an outlook for the future. As a result, this focused, forward-looking analysis will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics, and will teach its readers to be responsible global citizens, and residents of their landscape, helping ensure that the future we have will be the one we wish for.
Author: McGraw Hill
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780076587216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the Cornell note-taking format, this resource incorporates writing into the learning process. Directly linked to the student text, this notebook provides a systematic approach to learning science by encouraging students to engage by summarizing and synthesizing abstract concepts in their own words
Author: Peter Brannen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-06-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0062364820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decade New York Times Editors' Choice 2017 Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017 As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record—which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish—and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth’s biggest whodunits. Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave, and casts our future in a completely new light.
Author: Denise Pumain
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-02-09
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1402041276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ensures an optimal circulation of energy for information. This book reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in a variety of fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. It throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. At a time when networks are celebrated for their efficiency, flexibility and better social acceptance, much can be learned about the persistent universality and adaptability of hierarchies, and from the analogies and differences between biological and social organisation and processes. This book addresses a wide audience of biologists and social scientists, as well as managers and executives in a variety of institutions.
Author: McGraw-Hill Education
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2004-05-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780078664236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging, comprehensive and relevant, this textbook combines in-depth presentation with a stunning visual program. Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe is a comprehensive program that provides thorough content with a wide variety of engaging laboratory experiences. Relevant connections are highlighted to emphasize an environmental application between the classroom and the contemporary world. Strong support is given to math skills using the content.
Author: Wendy R. McClure
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 1118174151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.
Author: Jacques Gaillard
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 406
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