1. The Story of Earth (background info)

2. The Story of Us (background info)

3. Thinking Like a Geographer

Case Study: Ebola

4. Population Patterns and Growth

a. How is Earth's Population Changing?

b. Where Do People Live?

c. What Influences Where People Build Settlements?

d. Case Study: Population Patterns and Growth in Nigeria

5. Settlements and the Environment

a. How Can Physical Processes Affect Settlements?

b. How is Climate Change Affecting Settlements?

c. Case Study: Feeding the Hungry in Bangladesh

6. Impacts of Settlement

a. What Are Today's Settlement Trends?

b. Case Study: Megaregions

c. How Does Settlement Affect the Environment?

7. Making Our Communities More Sustainable

a. What are the Challenges of Sustainability?

b. Case Study: Brazil's Biofuel Bounty

c. What Does Sustainability Look Like?