Amazon.com description: Product Description: Earth science is an umbrella term for a series of interlocking, dynamic scientific areas of study that aim to explain how the planet Earth works as a system. Combining studies of all the elements around us and how they interact, this book provides a history of this complex field, while highlighting core principles and concepts. This title's informative graphics and images, along with its use of scientific equations to illustrate key points in the text, complement and flesh out a fascinating historical and scientific narrative.