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As part of its Open Book Initiative, Pearson Education has established an Internet-based communication policy that alerts educators to any factual or typographical errors or areas of possible misunderstanding in its school programs. In accordance with this policy, Prentice Hall is alerting you to corrections made in Science Explorer/Book E: Environmental Science © 2002.

We organized the corrections by category:

Corrections of factual errors
Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors
Changes for clarification, where the original wording or art could be improved to support student understanding

Publishers typically reprint books several times over the life of a copyright. Corrections can be made in each printing. Thus, depending on which printing of Science Explorer/Book E: Environmental Science you have, these corrections may already appear in your textbook.

Key:	Fig. = Figure
	Ch. = Chapter
	par. 1, par. 2, etc. = paragraph 1, paragraph 2, etc. (an incomplete paragraph at the top of a page is counted as paragraph 1)
	ques. 1, ques. 2, etc. = question 1, question 2, etc.
	col. 1, col. 2, etc. = column 1, column 2, etc.
	ans. = answer

Student Edition
0-13-054071-4

Corrections of factual errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
121	par. 1, third bullet	"• Every two weeks...World Trade Center towers..."	Delete bullet and text.	17-Nov-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
18	Try This, #3, line 1	"Add teaspoon..."	"Add 1/8th teaspoon..."	14-Jun-2001
102	Exploring Endangered Species, Piping plover, line 3	"...active coastal..."	"...active, coastal..."	14-Jun-2001
133	Fig. 15 caption, line 1	"Figures 15..."	"Figure 15..."	17-Nov-2001
135	Section 1 heading	"How Land is Used"	"Conserving Land and Soil	17-Nov-2001
186	col. 2, Design an Experiment head	"More to Explore"	Delete head.	14-Jun-2001
189	par. 1, line 6	"...The mat of...fibers trap air..."	"...The mat of...fibers traps air..."	23-Jan-2002

Changes for clarification.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
28	last par., last line	"...tomatoes in..."	"...tomato plants in..."	14-Jun-2001
186	col. 2, Design an Experiment, line 1	"Create a plan to..."	"Design an experiment to..."	14-Jun-2001

Teacher's Edition
0-13-054073-0

Corrections of factual errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
25	Building Inquiry Skills: Calculating, line 10	"...– 100 deaths =...of 1,300..."	"...– 500 deaths =...of 900..."	23-Jan-2002
210	sample data table head	"Time...Week"	"Time...Week (Hours)"	19-Jun-2001
212	Circle Graphs, line 7	"(on the previous page) be..."	"(on page 210) be..."	19-Jun-2001