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42) The rock cycle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In this book, readers will learn about how rocks are formed, worn down, and then formed again to create the rock cycle. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage readers as they learn more about how rocks are continually recycled"--
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Clean water is one of the leading environmental issues today. In this book, readers will learn about the importance, limited availability, and widespread pollution of clean water. Large-scale and personal solutions to water issues are also presented. Colorful and clear graphics, such as maps, charts, and infographics, give readers an alternative to text-heavy sources. Action-based activities will leave students with ideas for improving the world around...
44) Northern lights
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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480L
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English
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"The bright, colorful northern lights are magnificent, but there's more to them than meets the eye! Simple text introduces readers to northern lights. Including information about why they occur, where they can be seen, and how often they color the sky."--Publisher's website.
46) Water can be
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AD 310L
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English
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"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--
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This graduate-level text explores problems in earth sciences in which the random field model constitutes an effective approach. A critical and concise summary of the fundamental concepts and results of the general random field theory is followed by considerations of the intrinsic spatial random field model, and more. 103 figures. 16 tables.
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Richard V. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has taught and researched since 1955. In 1997, he was awarded the Thorarinsson Medal, the highest honor of the International Society of Volcanologists. Fisher is the coauthor, with Grant Heiken and Jeffrey B. Hulen, of Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change (Princeton). He also wrote Pyroclastic Rocks with H.-U. Schmincke and coedited Sedimentation...
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In recent years the statement that crude oil and natural gas are running out has a profound influence on the world economic strategies and on world politics as well as on the future of all humankind. But is this scientific conception of the world totally wrong? This is a must-read book! The renewed interest in the planets that resulted during the 2000s from the space probe investigations caused by Hans-Joachim Zillmer to think about the origin of...
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In demonstrating how Newtonian gravitational theory and Euclidean geometry can be used and developed in Earth's environment, the text discusses earth's gravitational field; matrices and orbital geometry; satellite orbit dynamics; geometry of satellite observations; statistical implications; and data analysis. Prerequisites: introductory course in college physics and a first-year course in calculus.
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This classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and related land forms, its accessible style makes it an enduring reference. 84 figures. 16 halftones.
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Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world. Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air, the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragments, scales...
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Español
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La respuesta de las geociencias a las principales y más curiosas cuestiones de nuestro planeta. Descubra con agudeza e inteligencia los aspectos más apasionantes de la estratigrafía, la mineralogía y la paleontología. La atmósfera y la hidrosfera, el clima presente, pasado y futuro. Las rocas, los recursos geológicos, la geofísica y la tectónica de placas.
¿Cuántos años tiene la Tierra? ¿Cuáles son los poderes de las piedras? ¿Hubo...
54) Life On Mars
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The first chapter describes Miller-Urey experiment, Oparin and Haldane Theory, Reddi experiment, fossils evidence of life, and RNA World hypothesis. The second chapter describes various biological macromolecules like carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. The third chapter planets and their composition. The fourth chapter describes various missions conducting on Mars.
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The book describes the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth, the main geological processes occurring on it, and how some crucial environmental matters that are amply debated in the media (e.g., pollution, greenhouse effect) can be fully understood by placing them in the holistic context of the system Earth as a whole. It provides basic information on a series of key geological issues, from the structure and composition of the Earth to...
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In this novel, we aim to spark a debate about the crucial need to preserve the delicate balance between the multiverse and the living. We explore various theories about the celestial system and living beings, taking into account a multitude of factors and variables. Our ultimate goal, however, is to emphasize the importance of viewing Earth as an integral part of a larger whole, subject to both internal and external factors, some of which are beyond...
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In low places consequences collect, and in all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake...
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From where - and what - does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit...
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Français
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La crise de la COVID-19 est un choc violent porté à un système socio-économique mondial déjà en transition vers des sociétés carboneutres. Un coup d'arrêt a été donné à la mondialisation, à la libre circulation des biens et services et au fonctionnement du libre marché. Du point de vue de l'action et de la recherche sur la transition énergétique et écologique, il est pour le moment difficile d'imaginer quels seront les contours d'un...
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A pioneering study of landform development under processes associated with running water, this text encompasses both field and laboratory research. Topics include the landscapes of mountains, rivers, and seacoasts; studies of weathering, climate, and erosion; and coverage of geochronology, drainage patterns, channel changes, and the evolution of hill slopes. 1964 edition.
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