Unit 2: The Ground Beneath our Feet: Understanding the Lithosphere

Unit 2: The Ground Beneath our Feet: Understanding the Lithosphere deals with the lithosphere - the first part of our planet to start forming after the solar system was created. The text explores the incredible forces behind plate tectonics and erupting volcanoes, as well as the processes that wear mountains down to flat plains. The general concepts found in this unit are:

• Continents Adrift (chapter 4),
• Movers and Shakers: How landforms are created (chapter 5),
• Earth's Treasure Trove: Elements, Minerals, and Rocks (chapter 6),
• Wearing Down the Land from Above (chapter 7),
• The Work of Wind and Water (chapter 8), and
• Ice Sculpting the Landscape (chapter 9).