TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Earth’s Ecosystems
• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Earth’s Ecosystems
• Lesson 2 - Photosynthesis: The Basic Process of Life
• Lesson 3 - Microscopic Organisms on Earth
• Lesson 4 - Earth’s Food Chains, Webs, and Pyramids
• Lesson 5- Earth’s Cycles for Life
• Vocabulary Review

• Earth’s Land and Water
• Lesson 1 - Earth’s Land Biomes
• Lesson 2 - Earth’s Water Ecosystems
• Lesson 3 - Ecosystems in California
• Vocabulary Review

• Heat Energy
• Lesson 1 - Heat Flow
• Lesson 2 - Waves
• Lesson 3 - Fuels: Our Major Energy Source
• Lesson 4 - Heat Transfer in Solids and Fluids
• Vocabulary Review

• Energy in the Earth System
• Lesson 1 - Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Lesson 2 - Solar Radiation
• Lesson 3 - The Power of Convection Currents
• Vocabulary Review

• Plate Tectonics and Earth’s Structure
• Lesson 1 - Earth’s Moving Plates
• Lesson 2 - Plate Tectonics: A Unifying Theory
• Lesson 3 - Earthquakes
• Lesson 4 - Volcanoes
• Lesson 5- How Plate Tectonics Affects California
• Vocabulary Review

• Shaping Earth’s Surface
• Lesson 1 - Atmospheric Pressure, Temperature, and Weather
• Lesson 2 - Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
• Lesson 3 - Rivers and Streams
• Lesson 4 - Beaches and Wave Erosion
• Lesson 5- Changing Habitats
• Vocabulary Review

• Earth’s Resources
• Lesson 1 - Sources of Energy
• Lesson 2 - Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
• Lesson 3 - Uses of Resources
• Vocabulary Review