(Note: There is no iLearn pre-class quiz on this reading assignment, but in general you should expect such online quizzes on many reading assignments from the text this semester.)

From The Earth System, 3rd Ed., Chapter 1:
"Global Change" (pp. 1-19)

• Pay close attention to the Key Questions at the beginning of the chapter and to the Chapter Summary and Review Questions (both of which you might want to preview before reading the chapter) at the end of the chapter (pp. 17-18).

Supplemental Reading

• Basic background on electromagnetic radiation, provided as a handout (from Danielson, Levin and Abrams, Meteorology, 1998, pp. 80-87).