As students progress through this book, they will learn some of the skills needed to learn about places on the earth. They will also learn some of the language of geography as well as how to read the maps, charts, and tables that geographers often use to present information about the earth and its peoples. They will study examples of how people interact with each other and with their environment. And they will learn how to organize their study of the earth by regions that are alike in some way. The terms students should know after completing each lesson are listed at the start. All the words are also listed in the glossary.
Orson Scott Card - (Ender Wiggin #6) - Ender in Exile
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin - called Ender by everyone - is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.
High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below.
Hot - Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
This readable, passionate book is surprisingly optimistic: Seattle, Chicago, and New York are making long-term, comprehensive plans for flooding and drought. Impoverished farmers in the already drought-stricken African Sahel have discovered how to substantially improve yields and decrease malnutrition by growing trees among their crops, and the technique has spread across the region; Bangladeshis, some of the poorest and most flood-vulnerable yet resilient people on earth, are developing imaginative innovations such as weaving floating gardens from water hyacinth that lift with rising water.
The Natural History of Earth - Debating long-term change in the geosphere and biosphere
Ferocious debates have always characterized the interpretation of Earth history. After a generally quieter period during the first half of the twentieth century, controversies re-ignited in many branches of the Earth and life sciences in the 1960s. Plate and plume tectonics, cosmic catastrophism, giant tsunamis, the origin of ice ages, punctuated equilibrium, the Gaia hypothesis, and many more have all led to intense arguments.
