Category:Book:Planet Earth
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Pages in category "Book:Planet Earth"
The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
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- 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 Affects 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
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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)
- 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 Breathe
- Planet Earth/4b. Oxygen in the Atmosphere
- Planet Earth/4c. Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
- Planet Earth/4d. Greenhouse 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
- 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. Ocean Circulation (Surface and Deep).
- 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. Heredity: Gregor Mendel’s Game of Cards
- Planet Earth/7g. Earth’s Biomes and Communities
- Planet Earth/7h. Soil: Living Dirt
- Planet Earth/7i. Earth’s Ecology: Food Webs and Populations