Planet Earth/print version

__NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__ Section 1: EARTH’S SIZE, SHAPE, AND MOTION IN SPACE 1a. Science: How do we Know What We Know. 1b. Earth System Science: Gaia or Medea? 1c. Measuring the Size and Shape of Earth. 1d. How to Navigate Across Earth using a Compass, Sexton, and Timepiece. 1e. Earth’s Motion and Spin. 1f. The Nature of Time: Solar, Lunar and Stellar Calendars. 1g. Coriolis Effect: How Earth’s Spin Affects Motion Across its Surface. 1h. Milankovitch cycles: Oscillations in Earth’s Spin and Rotation. 1i. Time: The Invention of Seconds using Earth’s Motion. Section 2: EARTH’S ENERGY 2a. What is Energy and the Laws of Thermodynamics? 2b. Solar Energy. 2c. Electromagnetic Radiation and Black Body Radiators. 2d. Daisy World and the Solar Energy Cycle. 2e. Other Sources of Energy: Gravity, Tides, and the Geothermal Gradient. Section 3: EARTH'S MATTER 3a. Gas, Liquid, Solid (and other states of matter). 3b. Atoms: Electrons, Protons and Neutrons. 3c. The Chart of the Nuclides. 3d. Radiometric dating, using chemistry to tell time. 3e. The Periodic Table and Electron Orbitals. 3f. Chemical Bonds (Ionic, Covalent, and others means to bring atoms together). 3g. Common Inorganic Chemical Molecules of Earth. 3h. Mass spectrometers, X-Ray Diffraction, Chromatography and Other Methods to Determine Which Elements are in Things. Section 4: EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE 4a. The Air You Breath. 4b. Oxygen in the Atmosphere. 4c. Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere. 4d. Green House Gases. 4e. Blaise Pascal and his Barometer. 4f. Why are Mountain Tops Cold? 4g. What are Clouds? 4h. What Makes Wind? 4i. Global Atmospheric Circulation. 4j. Storm Tracking. 4k. The Science of Weather Forecasting. 4l. Earth’s Climate and How it Has Changed. Section 5: EARTH’S WATER 5a. H2O: A Miraculous Gas, Liquid and Solid on Earth. 5b. Properties of Earth’s Water (Density, Salinity, Oxygen, and Carbonic Acid). 5c. Earth’s Oceans (Warehouses of Water). 5d. Surface Ocean Circulation. 5e. Deep Ocean Circulation. 5f. La Nina and El Nino, the sloshing of the Pacific Ocean. 5g. Earth’s Rivers 5h. Earth’s Endangered Lakes and the Limits of Freshwater Sources. 5i. Earth’s Ice: Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Ice. Section 6: EARTH’S SOLID INTERIOR 6a. Journey to the Center of the Earth: Earth’s Interior and Core. 6b. Plate Tectonics: You are a Crazy Man, Alfred Wegener. 6c. Earth’s Volcanoes, When Earth Goes Boom! 6d. You Can’t Fake an Earthquake: How to Read a Seismograph. 6e. The Rock Cycle and Rock Types (Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary). 6f. Mineral Identification of Hand Samples. 6g. Common Rock Identification. 6h. Bowen’s Reaction Series. 6i. Earth’s Surface Processes: Sedimentary Rocks and Depositional Environments. 6j. Earth’s History Preserved in its Rocks: Stratigraphy and Geologic Time. Section 7: EARTH’S LIFE 7a. How Rare is Life in the Universe? 7b. What is Life? 7c. How did Life Originate? 7e. Darwin and the Struggle for Existence. 7e. Darwin and the Struggle for Existence. 7f. Gregor Mendel’s Game of Cards: Heredity. 7g. Earth’s Biomes and Communities. 7h. Soil: Living Dirt. 7i. Earth’s Ecology: Food Webs and Populations. Section 8: EARTH’S HUMANS AND FUTURE 8a. Otzi’s World or What Sustainably Looks Like. 8b. Rise of Human Consumerism and Population Growth. 8c. Solutions for the Future. 8d. How to Think Critically About Earth's Future.