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Chapter 1: Understanding Our Environment
Chapter 2: Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Chapter 3: Matter, Energy, and Life
Chapter 4: Biological Communities and Species Interaction
Chapter 5: Biomes, Landscapes, Restoration, and Management
Chapter 6: Population Dynamics
Chapter 7: Human Populations
Chapter 8: Ecological Economics
Chapter 9: Environmental Health and Toxicology
Chapter 10: Environmental Policy, Law, and Planning
Chapter 11: Food and Agriculture
Chapter 12: Pest Control
Chapter 13: Biodiversity
Chapter 14: Land Use: Forests and Rangelands
Chapter 15: Preserving Nature
Chapter 16: Environmental Geology
Chapter 17: Air, Climate, and Weather
Chapter 18: Air Pollution
Chapter 19: Water Use and Management
Chapter 20: Water Pollution
Chapter 21: Conventional Energy
Chapter 22: Sustainable Energy
Chapter 23: Solid, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste
Chapter 24: Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
Chapter 25: What Then Shall We Do?
Chapter 16: Environmental Geology
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Objectives
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
understand some basic geologic principles, including how tectonic plate movements affect conditions for life on the earth.
explain how the three major rock types are formed and how the rock cycle works.
summarize economic mineralogy and strategic minerals.
discuss the environmental effects of mining and mineral processing.
recognize the geologic hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
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