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Chapter 1.1 - How Are Earth’s Oceans Unique?Chapter 1.2 - How Was Early Exploration Of The Oceans Achieved?Chapter 1.3 - What Is Oceanography?Chapter 1.4 - What Is The Nature Of Scientific Inquiry?Chapter 1.5 - How Were Earth And The Solar System Formed?Chapter 1.6 - How Were Earth’s Atmosphere And Oceans Formed?Chapter 1.7 - Did Life Begin In The Oceans?Chapter 1.8 - How Old Is Earth?Chapter 2.1 - What Evidence Supports Continental Drift?Chapter 2.2 - What Evidence Supports Plate Tectonics?
Chapter 2.3 - What Features Occur At Plate Boundaries?Chapter 2.4 - Testing The Model: How Can Plate Tectonics Be Used As A Working Model?Chapter 2.5 - How Has Earth Changed In The Past, And How Will It Look In The Future?Chapter 3.1 - What Techniques Are Used To Determine Ocean Bathymetry?Chapter 3.2 - What Features Exist On Continental Margins?Chapter 3.3 - What Features Exist In The Deep-ocean Basins?Chapter 3.4 - What Features Exist Along The Mid-ocean Ridge?Chapter 4.1 - How Are Marine Sediments Collected, And What Historical Events Do They Reveal?Chapter 4.2 - What Are The Characteristics Of Lithogenous Sediment?Chapter 4.3 - What Are The Characteristics Of Biogenous Sediment?Chapter 4.4 - What Are The Characteristics Of Hydrogenous Sediment?Chapter 4.5 - What Are The Characteristics Of Cosmogenous Sediment?Chapter 4.6 - How Are Pelagic And Neritic Deposits Distributed?Chapter 4.7 - What Resources Do Marine Sediments Provide?Chapter 5.1 - Why Does Water Have Such Unusual Chemical Properties?Chapter 5.2 - What Important Physical Properties Does Water Possess?Chapter 5.3 - How Salty Is Seawater?Chapter 5.4 - Why Does Seawater Salinity Vary?Chapter 5.5 - Is Seawater Acidic Or Basic?Chapter 5.6 - How Does Seawater Salinity Vary At The Surface And With Depth?Chapter 5.7 - How Does Seawater Density Vary With Depth?Chapter 5.8 - What Methods Are Used To Desalinate Seawater?Chapter 6.1 - What Causes Variations In Solar Radiation On Earth?Chapter 6.2 - What Physical Properties Does The Atmosphere Possess?Chapter 6.3 - How Does The Coriolis Effect Influence Moving Objects?Chapter 6.4 - What Global Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Exist?Chapter 6.5 - How Does The Ocean Influence Global Weather Phenomena And Climate Patterns?Chapter 6.6 - How Do Sea Ice And Icebergs Form?Chapter 6.7 - Can Power From Wind Be Harnessed As A Source Of Energy?Chapter 7.1 - How Are Ocean Currents Measured?Chapter 7.2 - What Creates Ocean Surface Currents And How Are They Organized?Chapter 7.3 - What Causes Upwelling And Downwelling?Chapter 7.4 - What Are The Main Surface Circulation Patterns In Each Ocean Basin?Chapter 7.5 - How Do Deep-ocean Currents Form?Chapter 7.6 - Can Power From Currents Be Harnessed As A Source Of Energy?Chapter 8.1 - How Are Waves Generated, And How Do They Move?Chapter 8.2 - What Characteristics Do Waves Possess?Chapter 8.3 - How Do Wind-generated Waves Develop?Chapter 8.4 - How Do Waves Change In The Surf Zone?Chapter 8.5 - How Are Tsunami Created?Chapter 8.6 - Can Power From Waves Be Harnessed As A Source Of Energy?Chapter 9.1 - What Causes Ocean Tides?Chapter 9.2 - How Do Tides Vary During A Monthly Tidal Cycle?Chapter 9.3 - What Do Tides Look Like In The Ocean?Chapter 9.4 - What Types Of Tidal Patterns Exist?Chapter 9.5 - What Tidal Phenomena Occur In Coastal Regions?Chapter 9.6 - Can Tidal Power Be Harnessed As A Source Of Energy?Chapter 10.1 - How Are Coastal Regions Defined?Chapter 10.2 - How Does Sand Move On The Beach?Chapter 10.3 - What Features Exist Along Erosional And Depositional Shores?Chapter 10.4 - How Do Changes In Sea Level Produce Emerging And Submerging Shorelines?Chapter 10.5 - How Does Hard Stabilization Affect Coastlines?Chapter 10.6 - What Are The Characteristics And Types Of Coastal Waters?Chapter 10.7 - What Issues Face Coastal Wetlands?Chapter 11.1 - What Is Pollution?Chapter 11.2 - What Marine Environmental Problems Are Associated With Petroleum Pollution?Chapter 11.3 - What Marine Environmental Problems Are Associated With Non-petroleum Chemical Pollution?Chapter 11.4 - What Marine Environmental Problems Are Associated With Nonpoint Source Pollution, Including Trash?Chapter 11.5 - What Marine Environmental Problems Are Associated With Biological Pollution?Chapter 11.6 - What Laws Govern Ocean Ownership?Chapter 12.1 - What Are Living Things, And How Are They Classified?Chapter 12.2 - How Are Marine Organisms Classified?Chapter 12.3 - How Many Marine Species Exist?Chapter 12.4 - How Are Marine Organisms Adapted To The Physical Conditions Of The Ocean?Chapter 12.5 - What Are The Main Divisions Of The Marine Environment?Chapter 13.1 - What Is Primary Productivity?Chapter 13.2 - What Kinds Of Photosynthetic Marine Organisms Exist?Chapter 13.3 - How Does Regional Primary Productivity Vary?Chapter 13.4 - How Are Energy And Nutrients Passed Along In Marine Ecosystems?Chapter 13.5 - What Issues Affect Marine Fisheries?Chapter 14.1 - How Are Marine Organisms Able To Stay Above The Ocean Floor?Chapter 14.2 - What Adaptations Do Pelagic Organisms Possess For Seeking Prey?Chapter 14.3 - What Adaptations Do Pelagic Organisms Possess To Avoid Being Prey?Chapter 14.4 - What Characteristics Do Marine Mammals Possess?Chapter 14.5 - An Example Of Migration: Why Do Gray Whales Migrate?Chapter 15.1 - What Communities Exist Along Rocky Shores?Chapter 15.2 - What Communities Exist Along Sediment-covered Shores?Chapter 15.3 - What Communities Exist On The Shallow Offshore Ocean Floor?Chapter 15.4 - What Communities Exist On The Deep-ocean Floor?Chapter 16.1 - What Comprises Earth’s Climate System?Chapter 16.2 - Earth’s Recent Climate Change: Is It Natural Or Caused By Human Influence?Chapter 16.3 - What Causes The Atmosphere’s Greenhouse Effect?Chapter 16.4 - What Changes Are Occurring In The Oceans As A Result Of Global Warming?Chapter 16.5 - What Should Be Done To Reduce Greenhouse Gases?
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