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Unit 1: Earth and Its Environments
Chapter 1: Earth Systems
Chapter 2: Ecology
Chapter 3: Human Populations
Chapter 4: Environmental Change
Unit 2: Living at Earth System Interfaces
Chapter 5: Coasts
Chapter 6: Watersheds and Rivers
Chapter 7: Weather and Storms
Chapter 8: Urban Environments
Unit 3: Living With a Dynamic Earth
Chapter 9: Restless Earth
Chapter 10: Volcanoes
Chapter 11: Earthquakes
Chapter 12: Unstable Land
Unit 4: Depending on the Earth
Chapter 13: Water
Chapter 14: Using Earth's Soil
Chapter 15: Energy Resources
Chapter 16: Mining
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Unit 1: Earth and Its Environments
Chapter 1: Earth Systems
1.1 Energy, Matter, and Systems
1.2 Earth Systems
1.3 How Science Studies Earth Systems
Chapter 2: Ecology
2.1 Understanding the Biosphere
2.2 Understanding Interactions in the Biosphere
2.3 The Biosphere is a Dynamic and Open System
2.4 The Biosphere and Humans
Chapter 3: Human Populations
3.1 Population Basics
3.2 Population History and Trends
3.3 Population and the Environment
Chapter 4: Environmental Change
4.1 Environmental Change Around You
4.2 Thinking About Environmental Change
4.3 Understanding Rates and Scales of Environmental Change
4.4 Measuring Environmental Change
4.5 People and Environmental Change
Unit 2: Living at Earth System Interfaces
Chapter 5: Coasts
5.1 Coasts and Earth Systems
5.2 Coasts and the Biosphere
5.3 People and Coasts
Chapter 6: Watersheds and Rivers
6.1 Watersheds and Rivers
6.2 Watersheds and River Ecology
6.3 People and Rivers
6.4 Living with Rivers
Chapter 7: Weather and Storms
7.1 The Dynamic Atmosphere
7.2 Weather, Climate, and the Biosphere
7.3 Severe Weather Conditions
7.4 People and Severe Weather
7.5 Human Impact on the Atmosphere
Chapter 8: Urban Environments
8.1 Urbanization
8.2 Urbanization and Earth Systems
8.3 Assessing Urban Impacts
Unit 3: Living With a Dynamic Earth
Chapter 9: Restless Earth
9.1 The Moving Geosphere
9.2 Shaping Earth's Surface
9.3 Physiography, Environments, and Biomes
Chapter 10: Volcanoes
10.1 What Volcanoes Are
10.2 Volcanoes and Earth Systems
10.3 Volcanoes and People
10.4 Living With Volcanoes
Chapter 11: Earthquakes
11.1 What Earthquakes Are
11.2 Where Earthquakes Occur
11.3 Measuring Earthquakes
11.4 Predicting Earthquakes
11.5 People and Earthquakes
Chapter 12: Unstable Land
12.1 What is Unstable Land?
12.2 Causes of Unstable land
12.3 Living With Unstable Land
Unit 4: Depending on the Earth
Chapter 13: Water
13.1 Earth- The Water Planet
13.2 Water and Earth's Systems
13.3 Earth's Water Resources
13.4 People and Water
Chapter 14: Using Earth's Soil
14.1 How Soils Form
14.2 Why Soil is Important
14.3 The Soil Ecosystem
14.4 People and Soils
14.5 Sustaining Soils
Chapter 15: Energy Resources
15.1 Why Energy is Important
15.2 Earth's Energy Resources
15.3 The Environmental Concerns of Energy Use
15.4 The Energy Future
Chapter 16: Mining
16.1 Mineral Resources
16.2 Environmental Concerns
16.3 The Mineral Resource Future
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