6 Billion and Counting
Joseph Hull and Greg Langkamp

Weekly Reading Assignments In Miller and Langkamp/Hull

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          MILLER, 5th Edition                                                    LANGKAMP AND HULL

Week 1:  Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere                                    Units, Percentages, Ratios, Graphing
    Geosphere, 26, 50, 201                                                                            Chapters 1-4
    Hydrosphere:  45-46, 280-282
    Atmosphere:  254-258

Week 2:  Biota, Ecology                                                                            Graphing, Linear Function and Regression
    Chapter 2, sections 2.3, 2.4,  2.5, and 2.6, pp. 25-44                                        Chapter 4, 5
    Chapter 6, sections 6.1 and 6.2, pp. 175-181

Week 3:  Soil, Food, Agriculture, Aquaculture                                      Exponential Function and Regression
    Chapter 6, sections 6.6 and 6.7                                                                        Chapter 6
    Chapter 7, all

Week 4:  Ecosystems, Forests                                                                     Statistics I:  Central Tendency
    Chapter 2, section 2.7 and 2.9                                                                         Chapter 15
    Chapter 5, sections 5.1 through 5.5

Week 5:  Animal and Human Populations                                                Difference Equations I: Linear and Exponential
    Chapter 3, all                                                                                                        Chapters 10, 11
    Figure 2.2, page 21

Week 6:  Water Resources                                                                             Difference Equations II: CLEs
    Chapter 2, sections 2.6 and 2.7 on streams                                                           Chapter 12
    Chapter 10, sections 10.1 through 10.4

Week 7:  Water Pollution                                                                              Difference Equations III: Systems of DE
    Chapter 10, sections 10.5 to the end                                                                      Chapter 12

Week 8:  Solid and Hazardous Waste                                                          Statistics II:  Normal Distribution
    Chapter 11, all                                                                                                        Chapter 16

Week 9:  Energy                                                                                              Statistics III:  Sampling, Z-scores
     Chapter 2, pp. 22-25                                                                                             Chapter 17
      Chapter 4, all

Week 10:  Geologic Hazards                                                                          Power Law Functions and Regressions, Fractals
       Chapter 8, sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.5                                                                   Chapter 8
 

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