[PDF] Exploring Environments eBook

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2007-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309102359

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The sources, distributions, and transformation of organic compounds in the solar system are active study areas as a means to provide information about the evolution of the solar system and the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe. There are many organic synthesis processes, however, and ambiguity surrounds the relative effectiveness of these processes in explaining the distribution of organic compounds in the solar system. As a consequence, NASA directed the NRC to determine what processes account for the reduced carbon compounds found throughout the solar system and to examine how planetary exploration can advance understanding of this central issue. This report presents a discussion of the chemistry of carbon; an analysis of the formation, modification, and preservation of organic compounds in the solar system; and an assessment of research opportunities and strategies for enhancing our understanding of organic material in the solar system.

Author : Jenepher Lingelbach
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN :

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This long-awaited revision of a popular book provides information and activities to assist educators and parents in exploring the local environment with children. Fact-filled essays introduce each subject, followed by field-tested, experiential activities that engage students in learning about the natural world. 115 illustrations.

Author : F. Alkazi
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9788125020509

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This book describes a series of exciting ideas and activities that will help children discover urban reality. Based on actual projects done in Mehrauli, it challenges the way you look at your environment. It suggests a range of possible ways to explore and involve students in their surrounding urban environment.

Author : Maria Montserrat Sala
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 2889630048

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Microbial extracellular enzymes are fundamental to the cycling of elements in aquatic systems. The regulation of these enzymatic reactions in oceans, lakes and streams is under complex multiple control by environmental factors and the metabolic capacities of different taxa and communities. While the environmental control of enzyme-mediated processes has been investigated for over 100 years, in recent years tremendous progress in techniques to characterize the metabolic potential of microbial communities (“omics” techniques) has been made, such as high-throughput sequencing and new analytical algorithms. This book explores the controls, activities, and biogeochemical consequences of enzymes in aquatic environments. It brings together experimental studies and fieldwork conducted with natural microbial communities in marine and freshwater ecosystems as well as physiological, biochemical and molecular studies on microbial communities in these environments, or species isolated from them. Additionally, the book contributes to the ongoing debate on the impact of anthropogenic climate change and pollution on microbes, extracellular enzymes and substrate turnover.

Author : Jonathan Litton
Publisher : QEB Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 15,94 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711250510

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What on Earth? The Environment is a simple first introduction to the environment – the air, soil, water, plants and animals. How do we as humans slot into the natural world around us and how do our actions affect the environment? What on Earth can we do about it? The book contains three different types of pages: Explore, Investigate and Create. This structure provides a child-led and hands-on way for children to learn about the world around them. Create pages consist of fun crafts and activities to give children a chance to play and have fun while learning.

Author : David Wright
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Costas
ISBN : 1853834424

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This text enables pupils from 11-16 to investigate European environmental issues through a wide variety of text, maps, photographs and statistical data presented in four focus sections: water and rivers; coasts and seas; forests; and urban areas. The accompanying disk contains a collection of up-to-date data and real case studies from WWF National Organizations and schools across Europe involved in environemental projects (some in original language versions). Flexible software with simple exporting enables users to view, select and export items into word processing, desktop publishing and spreadsheet packages. The 120 page teacher's handbook offers background notes, practical activities developed by teachers across Europe, resource sheets reproducing key items from the disk, plus pupil worksheets.

Author : Sheryl Mercier
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : 9781881431770

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"Examine[s] the complex interactions between living things and how they meet their needs"--Back cover.

Author : Ella Hawley
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448865204

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As people, we have a huge impact on our environment, and sadly this impact is not always a positive one. This incisive volume explores concepts such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change in age-appropriate language. Later chapters explain what people are doing to reduce or reverse negative changes to the environment and provide readers with information on simple things they can do to shrink their carbon footprint.