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1) Earth
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Explores the secrets of the Earth, answering questions about the what lies beneath the Earth's crust, why sea water is salty, what the ocean floor looks like, why Africa is splitting apart, and other topics.
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Mountain Press Publishing Company
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2018.
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English
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"The third edition of this popular guide is now even better--it's full color. Colorado's multihued rocks--from white and red sandstones to green shales and pink granites--are vividly splashed across the pages in stunning color photographs. Detailed color maps and diagrams clearly distill the state's complex bedrock geology. Updated text includes information about new discoveries, such as the mastodons and other Pleistocene fossils found at Snowmass,...
3) Planet earth
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Kingfisher
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English
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An illustrated guide to the planet Earth, introducing scientific concepts with color-coded buttons that share facts about life, science, the environment, and people, and describing Earth's position in space, a volcanic eruption, Earth's different layers, mountains, rain forests, biomes, and other related topics.
4) Tornadoes
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With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to do if one touches down. Full-color photographs show this powerful phenomenon...
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National Geographic
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"For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative book brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. Filled with brilliant sidebars, vivid photography, and unforgettable quotes from...
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Newly published in a fourth edition, this definitive guide takes the mystery out of appreciating, buying,and selling gemstones. It covers everything from the romance and history of more than 1,800 gemstones to their geographic locations; scientific, physical, and color properties; and the way they are formed, structured, and mined. The book also fully covers the optical features of gems--light and color, luminescence, refraction, and inclusions--...
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Rio Chico, Books for Children
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[2014]
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English
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The mountains teem with life, day and night. They are alive with chatter, song, splashing, soaring, and scurrying. Mountain Night Mountain Day uncovers how the fascinating animals of the mountains live around the clock.
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HarperCollins
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Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains. The earth's continents rest on plates that move slowly across our planet's...
13) What are floods?
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Pebble, a Capstone imprint
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[2019]
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English
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"Heavy rains can quickly turn into a dangerous flood. River, lake, and ocean levels rise rapidly. Levees break and water rushes in. Find out the safest place to be and how to prepare when rushing water is heading your way"--
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Custom House
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going."--
16) Earthquakes
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Abdo Zoom
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2017.
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English
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What causes earthquakes? How do scientists predict and prepare for them? Discover the answers to these questions and more. Vibrant, full-color photos and bolded glossary terms make each of the book's five chapters engaging and easy to read. Plus, a key stats section lets readers zoom in and learn more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
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Chronicle Books
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English
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This book about the science of snow features photos of snow crystals in their beautiful diversity and includes how snow crystals are formed into different shapes and snow-crystal-catching instructions in the back of the book.
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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose...
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Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows...