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Pages in category "Book:Planet Earth"
The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
1
- Planet Earth/1a. Science: How do we Know What We Know.
- Planet Earth/1b. Earth System Science: Gaia or Medea?
- Planet Earth/1c. Measuring the Size and Shape of Earth.
- Planet Earth/1d. How to Navigate Across Earth using a Compass, Sexton, and Timepiece.
- Planet Earth/1e. Earth’s Motion and Spin.
- Planet Earth/1f. The Nature of Time: Solar, Lunar and Stellar Calendars.
- Planet Earth/1g. Coriolis Effect: How Earth’s Spin Effects Motion Across its Surface.
- Planet Earth/1h. Milankovitch cycles: Oscillations in Earth’s Spin and Rotation.
- Planet Earth/1i. Time: The Invention of Seconds using Earth’s Motion.
2
- Planet Earth/2a. What is Energy and the Laws of Thermodynamics?
- Planet Earth/2b. Solar Energy.
- Planet Earth/2c. Electromagnetic Radiation and Black Body Radiators.
- Planet Earth/2d. Daisy World and the Solar Energy Cycle.
- Planet Earth/2e. Other Sources of Energy: Gravity, Tides, and the Geothermal Gradient.
3
- Planet Earth/3a. Gas, Liquid, Solid (and other states of matter).
- Planet Earth/3b. Atoms: Electrons, Protons and Neutrons.
- Planet Earth/3c. The Chart of the Nuclides.
- Planet Earth/3d. Radiometric dating, using chemistry to tell time.
- Planet Earth/3e. The Periodic Table and Electron Orbitals.
- Planet Earth/3f. Chemical Bonds (Ionic, Covalent, and others means to bring atoms together).
- Planet Earth/3g. Common Inorganic Chemical Molecules of Earth.
- Planet Earth/3h. Mass spectrometers, X-Ray Diffraction, Chromatography and Other Methods to Determine Which Elements are in Things.
4
- Planet Earth/4a. The Air You Breath.
- Planet Earth/4b. Oxygen in the Atmosphere.
- Planet Earth/4c. Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere.
- Planet Earth/4d. Green House Gases.
- Planet Earth/4e. Blaise Pascal and his Barometer.
- Planet Earth/4f. Why are Mountain Tops Cold?
- Planet Earth/4g. What are Clouds?
- Planet Earth/4h. What Makes Wind?
- Planet Earth/4i. Global Atmospheric Circulation.
- Planet Earth/4j. Storm Tracking.
- Planet Earth/4k. The Science of Weather Forecasting.
- Planet Earth/4l. Earth’s Climate and How it Has Changed.
5
- Planet Earth/5a. H2O: A Miraculous Gas, Liquid and Solid on Earth.
- Planet Earth/5b. Properties of Earth’s Water (Density, Salinity, Oxygen, and Carbonic Acid).
- Planet Earth/5c. Earth’s Oceans (Warehouses of Water).
- Planet Earth/5d. Surface Ocean Circulation.
- Planet Earth/5e. Deep Ocean Circulation.
- Planet Earth/5f. La Nina and El Nino, the sloshing of the Pacific Ocean.
- Planet Earth/5g. Earth’s Rivers
- Planet Earth/5h. Earth’s Endangered Lakes and the Limits of Freshwater Sources.
- Planet Earth/5i. Earth’s Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Ice.
6
- Planet Earth/6a. Journey to the Center of the Earth: Earth’s Interior and Core.
- Planet Earth/6b. Plate Tectonics: You are a Crazy Man, Alfred Wegener.
- Planet Earth/6c. Earth’s Volcanoes, When Earth Goes Boom!
- Planet Earth/6d. You Can’t Fake an Earthquake: How to Read a Seismograph.
- Planet Earth/6e. The Rock Cycle and Rock Types (Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary).
- Planet Earth/6f. Mineral Identification of Hand Samples.
- Planet Earth/6g. Common Rock Identification.
- Planet Earth/6h. Bowen’s Reaction Series.
- Planet Earth/6i. Earth’s Surface Processes: Sedimentary Rocks and Depositional Environments.
- Planet Earth/6j. Earth’s History Preserved in its Rocks: Stratigraphy and Geologic Time.
7
- Planet Earth/7a. How Rare is Life in the Universe?
- Planet Earth/7b. What is Life?
- Planet Earth/7c. How did Life Originate?
- Planet Earth/7d. The Origin of Sex.
- Planet Earth/7e. Darwin and the Struggle for Existence.
- Planet Earth/7f. Gregor Mendel’s Game of Cards: Heredity.
- Planet Earth/7g. Earth’s Biomes and Communities.
- Planet Earth/7h. Soil: Living Dirt.
- Planet Earth/7i. Earth’s Ecology: Food Webs and Populations.