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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This book teaches young readers about how Earth's tectonic plates lead to features such as mountains and ocean trenches, as well as natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Color illustrations and photographs, a glossary, a bibliography, a list of useful websites, and hands-on activities and projects are also provided.
5) Shaky ground
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Presents information on earthquakes and their effect on planet Earth, giving specific examples from around the world.
6) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Most volcanoes just look like mountains--until bam, they erupt with either smoke and ash or lava. Engaging and accessible text describes and illustrates some of the most common ways that volcanoes form and erupt. Readers will be able to see how the earth's crust moves as plates, revealing the fierce activity of the layer below. Diagrams and cross-sections of volcanic activity make the subject clear and easy to grasp. In a simple follow-up activity,...
8) Earthquakes
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind earthquakes, including where and why earthquakes happen and how to stay safe when the ground starts to shake. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--
10) A changing Earth
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Hands on Science series provides students with background on key concepts in Science. Each title includes engaging hands on exercises that bring the concepts to life for kids. Real World Science: A Changing Earth, provide information on how landforms change, how mountains form, what causes volcanoes and earthquakes, and the movement of continents.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Why does a volcano erupt? How many different kinds of volcanoes are there? Once believed to be the work of a fire god named Vulcan, volcanoes have long fascinated people. Looking at three different types of volcanoes-composite, cinder cone, and shield-uncover how and why these magnificent and deadly mountains change the earth for the better, and for the worse.
12) Volcanos
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction primer on all thing volcanos, including the different types of volcanos, the work of volcanologists, and more"--
14) Plate tectonics
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A book for high school students about the revelation of plate tectonics and its effects on the earth."--
15) Fault lines & tectonic plates: discover what happens when the Earth's crust moves : with 25 projects
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Learn about earthquakes and volcanoes and how the earth's surface is always changing.
16) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"How is a volcano like a soft drink? To visit the largest known volcano would you need a submarine or a spaceship? How fast can a pyroclastic flow go? True or False?: Volcanoes is here with answers to these questions and more!"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Discover what earthquakes are and how they are caused. Find out how scientists measure earthquakes, and what makes some earthquakes so much more destructive than others. Read about some of the most serious earthquake disasters in history, and how people can be better prepared in the future"--
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