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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 H: Earth's Waters © 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 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
0-13-054082-X

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
128	Fig. 14 caption, line 4	"...Sea in Israel is..."	"...Sea between Israel and Jordan is..."	13-Aug-2001
128	Fig. 14 caption, line 7	"...is Israel's hot,..."	"...is the area's hot,..."	15-Jun-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
152	Sharpen Your Skills, lines 1–3	"...Earth's largest mountain? Use..."	"...Earth's tallest mountain? Use..."	08-Feb-2002

Teacher's Edition
0-13-054083-8

Corrections of factual errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
44	Using the Visuals: Figure 2, lines 17–20	"...rivers that are not labeled on the text map—...Hudson, James, Savannah, Rio Grande,..."	"...rivers that are not labeled on the text map—" implies that they are shown on the text map, which they are not:"...Hudson, Rio Grande,..."	10-Dec-2001
78d	Student Edition Activities Planner, Materials col., Section 1, row 2, last line	"...stoppers, pH..."	"...stoppers, test tube rack, pH..."	18-Nov-2001
125	Addressing Naive Conceptions, lines 10–11	"...floor) learning..."	"...floor. They may also be caused by large undersea landslides.) learning..."	18-Nov-2001
128	Background, col. 2, last line	"...Dead Sea in Israel."	"...Dead Sea."	19-Jun-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
150	Exploring the Ocean Floor, line 12	"...a theater isle,..."	"...a theater aisle,..."	19-Jun-2001
150	Exploring the Ocean Floor, line 15	"...of 2-3 km..."	"...of 2–3 km..."	18-Nov-2001