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| 1 | Trophic pyramid diagram | Figure | I.6 |
| 2 | Map of the far north of U.S. and Canada | Figure | 1.1 |
| 3 | Earth's orbit around the Sun | Figure | 1.3 |
| 4 | Energy flow by calories along a food chain | Figure | 1.4 |
| 5 | Beaufort Sea food web diagram | Figure | 1.5 |
| 6 | Arctic tundra and Beaufort Sea trophic pyramids | Figure | 1.6 |
| 7 | Microscope + phytoplankton | Figure | 1.8a |
| 8 | Microscope + zooplankton | Figure | 1.9a |
| 9 | Tropical forest canopies | Figure | 2.1 |
| 10 | Orographic air flow westward over Costa Rica's Cordillera Central | Figure | 2.A |
| 11 | Map of Costa Rica | Figure | 2.2 |
| 12 | Two soil profiles showing soil horizons | Figure | 2.3 |
| 13 | Planetary air flow | Figure | 2.4 |
| 14 | Concentric circular water-purification system - Paisley Scotland | Figure | 3.A |
| 15 | Simpson's water purification system in London | Figure | 3.B |
| 16 | Waste-water treatment | Figure | 3.C |
| 17 | Map of the River Thames | Figure | 3.1 |
| 18 | Hydrologic cycle cross section | Figure | 3.5 |
| 19 | Numbers of salmon - Boulter's Lock | Figure | 3.8 |
| 20 | London's Soho District and the Broad Street pump | Figure | 3.9 |
| 21 | Dissolved oxygen curves | Figure | 3.11 |
| 22 | Increasing numbers of different fish species in the Thames | Figure | 3.12 |
| 23 | Solar intensity of different wavelengths reaching the earth | Figure | 4.B |
| 24 | Chesapeake Bay | Figure | 4.1 |
| 25 | Seagrasses, plankton, and fish | Figure | 4.4 |
| 26 | Nitrogen and phosphorus by sources entering Chesapeake Bay | Figure | 4.6 |
| 27 | Phosphorus and nitrogen - target goals and actual levels | Figure | 4.8 |
| 28 | Chesapeake Bay seagrass areas - interim goal and actual levels | Figure | 4.9 |
| 29 | Examples of pH | Figure | 5.A |
| 30 | Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere/elevations | Figure | 5.1 |
| 31 | Atmospheric inversions | Figure | 5.2 |
| 32 | Map showing location of Pittsburgh | Figure | 5.4 |
| 33 | Reductions in atmospheric pollutants | Figure | 5.7 |
| 34 | Exponential and sigma population growth curves | Figure | 6.2 |
| 35 | Variation in lemming populations | Figure | 6.3 |
| 36 | Variations in blue heron populations | Figure | 6.4 |
| 37 | China: birth and death rates | Figure | 6.5 |
| 38 | Population age structure diagrams | Figure | 6.6 |
| 39 | Demographic transition curves | Figure | 6.7 |
| 40 | Population growth: developing vs industrialized nations | Figure | 6.8 |
| 41 | Variations in world populations rates of increase | Figure | 6.11 |
| 42 | Map of Mexico | Figure | 7.1 |
| 43 | Wheat yield data in Mexico, Pakistan, and India | Figure | 7.2 |
| 44 | Increasing number of pesticide-resistant species | Figure | 7.9 |
| 45 | DDT bioaccumulation and biomagnification up to ospreys | Figure | 7.10 |
| 46 | Nitrogen: biogeochemical cycling | Figure | 8.A |
| 47 | Canada's prairie provinces | Figure | 8.5 |
| 48 | Petroleum and natural gas deposits | Figure | 9.1 |
| 49 | Tower-fractionation of crude oil into various products | Figure | 9.3 |
| 50 | Trans Alaska pipeline system | Figure | 9.4 |
| 51 | Prince William Sound and the oil spill | Figure | 9.8 |
| 52 | Projected U.S. and world energy demands | Figure | 9.11 |
| 53 | Atomic nuclei and electrons | Figure | 10.1 |
| 54 | Atomic fission of uranium-235 | Figure | 10.2 |
| 55 | Schematic drawing of a nuclear power plant | Figure | 10.6 |
| 56 | Tennessee Valley Authority | Figure | 10.7 |
| 57 | Schematic drawing of one of the Chernobyl power reactors | Figure | 10.12 |
| 58 | Percent of nuclear-derived electric power in various countries | Figure | 10.14 |
| 59 | Solar cell | Figure | 11.A |
| 60 | Passive solar heating in homes | Figure | 11.1 |
| 61 | Thermal solar power | Figure | 11.4B |
| 62 | A fuel cell | Figure | 11.8 |
| 63 | Gases that contribute to global warming | Figure | 12.2 |
| 64 | Temperature changes over geologic time | Figure | 12.3 |
| 65 | Temperature changes during Medieval period and Little Ice Age | Figure | 12.4 |
| 66 | Actual earth temperatures over time | Figure | 12.5 |
| 67 | Ice core and Mauna Loa carbon dioxide measurements | Figure | 12.6 |
| 68 | Carbon dioxide emissions by year | Figure | 12.10 |
| 69 | Energy vs electromagnetic wavelengths | Figure | 13.1 |
| 70 | Chemical sources of stratospheric ozone depletion trends | Figure | 13.2 |
| 71 | First ozone hole observations by British scientists | Figure | 13.3 |
| 72 | Variation in stratospheric ozone above Toronto, Canada | Figure | 13.7 |
| 73 | Uniform hazardous waste handling | Figure | 14.1 |
| 74 | Fate of hazardous wastes | Figure | 14.2 |
| 75 | Map of Woburn, Mass. | Figure | 14.3 |