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Corrections for Science Explorer/Book H: Earth's Waters ©2000

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 H: Earth's Waters © 2000.

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 H: Earth's Waters 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
0-13-434484-7

Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
19 Science and History, Mexico, heading and leader line "A.D. 500 Mexico" "A.D. 1200 Mexico", and re-position leader to correct location on the timeline. 23-Jan-2002
82 Real-World Lab, You the Consumer, Testing the Waters, col. 2, #6, line 4 "Record the pH (1–14) in your data table." "Record the pH (0–14) in your data table." 27-Oct-2001
83 Data Table, row 1, col. 3 heading "pH (1–14)" "pH (0–14)" 27-Oct-2001
83 par. 2, line 2 "...on a scale of 1 to 14..." "...on a scale of 0 to 14..." 23-Oct-2000
90 par. 2, line 6 "...through seven states..." "...through five states..." 14-Oct-2000
128 Fig. 14 caption, line 4 "...Sea in Israel is..." "...Sea between Israel and Jordan is..." 27-Oct-2001
128 Fig. 14 caption, line 7 "...is Israel's hot,..." "...is the area's hot,..." 27-Oct-2001
178 Reviewing Content, Multiple Choice, #1, line 1 "Earth's crust is made up of..." "Earth's crust and upper mantle are made up of..." 14-Oct-2000
197 #5, last line "...line." "...line. Also, not all graphs are linear. It may be more appropriate to draw a curve to connect the points." 27-Oct-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
160 par. 4, lines 1–2 "A single plant, cord grass, dominates...Unlike most plants, cord grass can survive..." "A single plant, cordgrass, dominates...Unlike most plants, cordgrass can survive..." 27-Oct-2001
160 par. 4, lines 3–4 "...narrow leaves. The cord grass that is not eaten..." "...narrow leaves. The cordgrass that is not eaten..." 27-Oct-2001
160 par. 5, line 1 "...through the cord grass. Waves break..." "...through the cordgrass. Waves break..." 17-Dec-2000
178 Reviewing Content, Multiple Choice, #3, line 3 "...tissues is a..." "...tissues is a(n)..." 23-Oct-2000
178 Reviewing Content, True or False, #9, line 2 "...is called a seamount..." "...is called a(n) seamount..." 23-Oct-2000

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
44 Figure 2 art No label for Rio Grande Add label for Rio Grande 23-Oct-2000
115 par. 4, line 2 "...does not actually move forward. If it did,..." "...does not actually move forward in deep water. If it did,..." 14-Oct-2000
121 par. 1, lines 5–6 "...called a tsunami, is caused by..." "...called a tsunami, is usually caused by..." 27-Oct-2001
127 par. 2, lines 3–4 "...begins with the early stages of Earth's formation, when the ocean covered the entire surface of the..." "...begins with the early stages of Earth's history, when the ocean covered much of the surface of the..." 27-Oct-2001
131 Science at Home, lines 1–2 "Ask an adult family member to poke two holes in a milk carton as shown. Cover the..." "Use a ballpoint pen to poke two holes in a milk carton—one about one third of the way from the bottom and one two thirds of the way from the bottom. Cover the..." 27-Oct-2001
131 Science at Home, lines 4–5 "...above a bathtub or sink,..." "...above a sink,..." 27-Oct-2001
136 Figure 17 caption, last line "...the photograph." "...the image." 17-Dec-2000
136 Figure 17 caption, lines 1–2 "This satellite photograph of the..." "This satellite image of the..." 27-Oct-2001
150 par. 1, lines 4–5 "...In fact, the ocean floor was rocky and dramatically uneven..." Delete sentence. 27-Oct-2001
150 par. 3, lines 4–5 "...the ocean floor suddenly plunges steeply below you. This steep incline..." "...the ocean floor begins to slope more steeply. This steep incline..." 27-Oct-2001
152 Sharpen Your Skills, lines 1–3 "...Earth's largest mountain? Use..." "...Earth's tallest mountain? Use..." 08-Feb-2002
153 par. 1, last two lines "...As hot lava cools, it forms new crust." "...As lava cools, it forms new crust." 14-Oct-2000
153 par. 2, lines 1–4 "...Earth's crust is not solid. Instead, the crust is broken into...pieces like...a cracked, hard-boiled egg. The pieces of Earth's crust, called plates, move on the liquid of the mantle...." "...Earth's crust is solid rock that is broken into...pieces like...a cracked, hard-boiled egg. The pieces of Earth's crust, along with parts of the upper mantle, are called plates. Such plates move slowly on the underlying portion of the mantle." 27-Oct-2001
154 Figure 5 art label "Crust" Replace "Crust" with "Plate". 23-Oct-2000


Teacher's Edition
0-13-434565-7

Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
44 Using the Visuals: Figure 2, line 20 "...Savannah, Rio Grande, and..." "...Savannah, and..." 14-Oct-2000
44 Using the Visuals: Figure 2, lines 17–20 "...rivers that are not labeled on the text map—...Hudson, James, Savannah, and..." "...rivers that are not labeled on the text map—" implies that they are shown on the text map, which they are not:
"...Hudson, and..."
07-Dec-2001
82 Sample Data Table, row 1, col. 3 heading "pH
(1–14)"
"pH
(0–14)"
27-Oct-2001
128 Background, fourht bullet, last line "...Dead Sea in Israel." "...Dead Sea." 27-Oct-2001
181 Social Studies Activity, Teaching Resources, line 3 "Finding Places in the Mississippi Valley,..." "Finding Locations on a Map,..." 14-Oct-2000

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
114 Reading Strategies, Vocabulary, lines 4–5 "...frequency, trough, and groin, but have..." "...frequency, and trough, but have..." 27-Oct-2001


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