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 "Pimm and Clinton Jenkins, conservation, ecology, and extinction investigators from the Nicholas School of the Environment and earth sciences at Duke University, wrote that the world's three remaining tropical forests and twenty-five "hot spots" harbor "most of the world's species of plants and animals."44 Indeed, more than half the animal species in the world live in rain forests.45 Only a single square mile of Amazon rain forest is home to up to fifteen hundred species of butterfly."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
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The central problem of the earth sciences is to understand how our planet works and how it came to be the way it is. The essential fact emerging from these sciences is that the earth can be pictured as a set of three separate but interconnected cycles. The geological cycle governs the formation and disappearance of solid land. The science of geology contains two central insights. The first of these, arrived at in the eighteenth century, is that the earth is very old, and that its history can be read in the rocks on its surface."- E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) |
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The central problem of the earth sciences is to understand how our planet works and how it came to be the way it is. The essential fact emerging from these sciences is that the earth can be pictured as a set of three separate but interconnected cycles. The geological cycle governs the formation and disappearance of solid land. The science of geology contains two central insights. The first of these, arrived at in the eighteenth century, is that the earth is very old, and that its history can be read in the rocks on its surface." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.) |
| "Earth Sciences
The central problem of the earth sciences is to understand how our planet works and how it came to be the way it is. The essential fact emerging from these sciences is that the earth can be pictured as a set of three separate but interconnected cycles. The geological cycle governs the formation and disappearance of solid land. The science of geology contains two central insights. The first of these, arrived at in the eighteenth century, is that the earth is very old, and that its history can be read in the rocks on its surface." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) |
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