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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