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BRIEF CONTENTS
Preface xii
1 What Is Science? 1 11 Water and Solutions 275 21 Geologic Time 521
12 Organic Chemistry 299 22 The Atmosphere of
PHYSICS Earth 541
13 Nuclear Reactions 323
2 Motion 25 23 Weather and Climate 565
3 Energy 61 ASTRONOMY 24 Earth’s Waters 597
4 Heat and Temperature 85 14 The Universe 351
5 Wave Motions 15 The Solar System 377 Appendix A 623
and Sound 115 Appendix B 631
16 Earth in Space 405
6 Electricity 139 Appendix C 632
7 Light 177 EARTH SCIENCE Appendix D 633
17 Rocks and Minerals 433 Appendix E 643
CHEMISTRY
18 Plate Tectonics 455 Credits 699
8 Atoms and Periodic
19 Building Earth’s Index 701
Properties 203
Surface 477
9 Chemical Bonds 229
20 Shaping Earth’s
10 Chemical Reactions 251 Surface 501
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