Reading About Science Book 4: Gases, Acids, and the Earth

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The chapters in the book Reading About Science Book 4: Gases, Acids, and the Earth from Heinemann each deal independently with a specific aspect of the topics covered and is compete in itself, allowing the chapters to be read in any sequence. Each of the 20 chapters begins with information about an aspect of the topic and ends with questions to help the understanding and application of what has been read and, in some cases, activities designed to use the ideas presented.

Contents
1. Pollution in the atmosphere
2. Carbon dioxide
3. Gases for industry
4. How do we breathe ?
5. Energy in food A
6. Food chains, webs, and pyramids
7. Hydrogen
8. Protecting ships' hulls
9. Aluminium and anodizing
10. Acids in the kitchen
11. Neutralization B
12. How important is lime for farmers?
13. Rocks B
14. Volcanoes A
15. Metals in everyday life A
16. The day the Earth moved B
17. Making and using cement A
18. An oil refinery
19. What's in a good soil?
20. Microbes on the move

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