{"id":279,"date":"2004-03-24T07:26:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T13:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=279"},"modified":"2005-01-07T05:36:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T11:36:43","slug":"review-a-target_blank-hrefhttpwwwamazoncomexecobidosasin0375750800fantasistnethigh-school-earth-science-reviewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/03\/24\/review-a-target_blank-hrefhttpwwwamazoncomexecobidosasin0375750800fantasistnethigh-school-earth-science-reviewa\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: High School Earth Science Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finished the <a target=\"_blank\" HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0375750800\/fantasistnet\">High School Earth Science Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That may seem odd, but it&#8217;s not, really.  See, I want to create more realistic worlds for my fantasy and science-fiction settings, so, I need to know the basics.  And, in my opinion, the basics include earth science.  So, falling back on my memories of High School, I thought it would be good to simply review the things I hadn&#8217;t caught in science class.  See?  It realy does make sense!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the book was actually fairly good.  It gave a decent overview of the subject and used pretty simple language.  After all, it <i>is<\/i> meant for High School students who are having trouble with Earth Science!  But, it does hit all the highlights: plate tectonics, water movement and erosion, weather and climate, and so on.  There are questions at the end of each section meant to test your knowlege alone the way, but I didn&#8217;t really pay attention to them.  I wasn&#8217;t trying to pass a test, after all.  It did give me several ideas for interesting things in regards to planetary processes that might turn up in some of my writing.  And, of course, I hope it will improve the realism of my maps.  Knowing that rain falls on the windward, and oceanward, side of the mountains, for instance, really effects a lot on a map.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re looking at world-building, there are far worse places to start than a review of High School earth science.  And, this book is a fairly good review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finished the High School Earth Science Review. That may seem odd, but it&#8217;s not, really. See, I want to create more realistic worlds for my fantasy and science-fiction settings, so, I need to know the basics. And, in my opinion, the basics include earth science. So, falling back on my memories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,23,28],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-worlds","category-maps-and-mapping","category-review","category-science-and-technology","tag-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}