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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 I: Weather and Climate © 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 I: Weather and Climate 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
0-13-054085-4

Corrections of factual errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
39	Test Preparation, graph, vertical axis	Numerals and axis markings are not aligned.	Align numerals and axis markings.	15-Jun-2001
113	Fig. 1 art	Incorrect positioning of latitude lines.	New Figure 1 Art	15-Jun-2001
142	par. 4, lines 2–3	"...In 1992, more than 90 nations agreed to phase out production of CFCs. Because..."	"...In 1990, many nations agreed to end the production and use of CFCs by 2000. Because..."	18-Nov-2001
145	#23 map	Incorrect positioning of latitude lines.	New Art	09-Aug-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
64	par. 7, last line	"...made mostly of..."	"...made of..."	15-Jun-2001
65	Exploring Clouds, Cirrus clouds caption, last two lines	"...made up mostly of..."	"...made up of..."	15-Jun-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
32	par. 7, lines 5–6	"...kilometers. The outer mesophere is...near –90°C."	"...kilometers. In the outer mesophere, temperatures approach –90°C."	18-Nov-2001
51	Fig. 5 label "Heat transfer by radiation"	Label is improperly positioned.	New Figure 5 Labeling	15-Jun-2001
83	Discover, #1, line 1	"Fill a large plastic jar..."	Add a breakage icon, and revise line: "Fill a large jar..."	15-Jun-2001

Teacher's Edition
0-13-054086-2

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
13	Performance Assessment, third bullet, line 2	"presentation of results are;"	"presentation of results is;"	23-Jan-2002
32	Building Inquiry Skills: Inferring, line 4	"...mesophere colder..."	"...mesophere generally colder..."	19-Jun-2001
73	Project Wrap Up, line 5	"...their presenta-tions a..."	"...their presentations a..."	19-Jun-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page	Location	Original	Revision	Date Posted
142	Addressing Naive Conceptions, lines 13–16	"...that the ozone layer in the stratosphere would also not be a healthy place for people to live and breathe. However, it protects..."	"...that the concentration of ozone found in the ozone layer would be harmful for people to breathe. However, the ozone layer protects..."	18-Nov-2001