Environmental Chemistry for High School

"Environmental Chemistry for High School" is a brief summary of the science of environmental chemistry intended for high school students who would like to learn about this topic during or after a course in high school chemistry. It assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of general chemistry at the high school level. The book discusses the Earth system from the viewpoint of the five environmental spheres: (1) Hydrosphere, (2) Atmosphere, (3) Geosphere, (4) Biosphere, and (5) Anthrosphere, the last of which is that part of the Earth System consisting of the things that humans have constructed and the manner in which they operate within the Earth system. Chapter 1 is an overview of environmental chemistry and Chapter 2 deals with sustainable energy. The specific sections in the book are the following: (1.1) The Five Spheres of the Environment and the Earth System, (1.2) Environmental Chemistry, (1.3) Cycles of Matter in the Earth System, (1.4) Environmental Chemistry of the Hydrosphere, (1.5) Environmental Chemistry of the Atmosphere, (1.6) Environmental Chemistry of the Geosphere, (1.7) Environmental Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Biosphere, (1.8) Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry, (1.9) Environmental Chemistry of the Anthrosphere A35
Components of the Anthrosphere, (1.10) Environmental Chemistry and Sustaining Our Home (2.1) The Energy Challenge, (2.2) What is Energy?, (2.3) Sustainable Future Energy, Away from the Sun and Back to it Again, (2.4) Fossil Fuels in the Sustainocene, (2.5) Nuclear Energy in the Sustainocene, (2.6) Geothermal Energy,(2.7) Unlimited Sustainable Energy from the Sun, (2.8) Elemental Hydrogen from Water for Energy Storage, Utilization, Conversion, and Transfer, (2.9) Wind Power (2.10) Water Power, (2.11) Biomass Energy, an Overview of Biofuels and their Resources, (2.12) Conversion of Biomass to Other Fuels