Children's Encyclopedia of Earth
The Five Mile
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Packed with information, this encyclopedia aims
primarily to supply high school students with the
facts that will make their essays sparkle, but
the book is so attractive, so tempting to the eye
and mind, that it will appeal to all the family.
Its eight sections use authoritative text, illustrated
by photographs, maps and diagrams - all in full
color - to cover:
Our place in space - Earth as
a planet in the Solar System.
Earth's history - The evolution
of plants and animals
Inside Earth - Earth's internal
structure, plate tectonics, minerals, rocks, and
fossils
Dynamic Earth - Volcanoes, earthquakes, geysers, glaciers, ice
sheets, avalanches, landslides, and weathering
Oceans - Each of the oceans described in detail, currents, waves
and tides, ocean life
Land - Mapping, continents, islands, ecosystems, biodiversity,
and the global environment
Weather - World weather, climate zones, the weather engine,
climate change
Earth's resources - Fossil fuels, solar and wind energy, and water power
