Author: Barbara Tufty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144437
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This highly readable and informative guide answers hundreds of fascinating questions about storms and atmospheric phenomena. In addition to dispelling common misconceptions, it imparts a wealth of solid scientific data about hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind, fog, ice storms, and other events. The text is embellished with 72 drawings and 20 photographs.
1001 Questions Answered About
Author: Barbara Tufty
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144437
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This highly readable and informative guide answers hundreds of fascinating questions about storms and atmospheric phenomena. In addition to dispelling common misconceptions, it imparts a wealth of solid scientific data about hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind, fog, ice storms, and other events. The text is embellished with 72 drawings and 20 photographs.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144437
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This highly readable and informative guide answers hundreds of fascinating questions about storms and atmospheric phenomena. In addition to dispelling common misconceptions, it imparts a wealth of solid scientific data about hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind, fog, ice storms, and other events. The text is embellished with 72 drawings and 20 photographs.
Natural Disasters: Hurricanes
Author: Pat J. Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576072606
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This easily accessible reference work reveals the workings of savage tropical storms, charts their actions and cycles, assesses their economic and environmental impact, and reviews the latest research on hurricanes.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576072606
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This easily accessible reference work reveals the workings of savage tropical storms, charts their actions and cycles, assesses their economic and environmental impact, and reviews the latest research on hurricanes.
1001 Questions Answered about Storms, and Other Natural Air Disasters
Author: Barbara Tufty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hurricanes
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sweeping across the earth's surface and into the atmosphere are invisible masses of air--ever restless, ever moving. Set in motion by the heat of the sun, stirred by the spinning of the earth, directe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hurricanes
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sweeping across the earth's surface and into the atmosphere are invisible masses of air--ever restless, ever moving. Set in motion by the heat of the sun, stirred by the spinning of the earth, directe.
Atmosphere & Weather, Grades 5 - 8
Author: Logan
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
ISBN: 1580378684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using Atmosphere and Weather. This 80-page book covers topics such as heat absorption, relative humidity, barometric pressure, measuring wind, and interpreting weather maps. It contains subject-specific concepts and terminology, inquiry-based activities, challenge questions, extension activities, assessments, curriculum resources, a bibliography, and materials lists. The book supports National Science Education Standards, NCTM standards, and Standards for Technological Literacy.
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
ISBN: 1580378684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using Atmosphere and Weather. This 80-page book covers topics such as heat absorption, relative humidity, barometric pressure, measuring wind, and interpreting weather maps. It contains subject-specific concepts and terminology, inquiry-based activities, challenge questions, extension activities, assessments, curriculum resources, a bibliography, and materials lists. The book supports National Science Education Standards, NCTM standards, and Standards for Technological Literacy.
Speaking for Nature
Author: Paul Brooks
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486795470
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Narrative portraits of America's great literary naturalists offer a 200-year history of wildlife conservation: Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Beebe, Carson, and many others. "Brisk and illuminating." — The New York Times Book Review.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486795470
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Narrative portraits of America's great literary naturalists offer a 200-year history of wildlife conservation: Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Beebe, Carson, and many others. "Brisk and illuminating." — The New York Times Book Review.
One Hundred Problems in Elementary Mathematics
Author: Hugo Steinhaus
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238753
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
100 problems—with instructive solutions—on numbers, equations, polygons, polyhedra, and many other topics. Very challenging. Additional 13 problems without solutions.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486238753
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
100 problems—with instructive solutions—on numbers, equations, polygons, polyhedra, and many other topics. Very challenging. Additional 13 problems without solutions.
Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, New Edition
Author: David Longshore
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Presents a detailed encyclopedia of named hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, descriptions of storm activity, definitions of meteorological terms, and more.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Presents a detailed encyclopedia of named hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, descriptions of storm activity, definitions of meteorological terms, and more.
Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science
Author: Alwyn Scott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455589
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1107
Book Description
In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems in ecology and biological systems, chemical reaction-diffusion problems, geophysics, economics, electrical and mechanical oscillations in engineering systems, lasers and nonlinear optics, fluid mechanics and turbulence, and condensed matter physics, among others.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455589
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1107
Book Description
In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems in ecology and biological systems, chemical reaction-diffusion problems, geophysics, economics, electrical and mechanical oscillations in engineering systems, lasers and nonlinear optics, fluid mechanics and turbulence, and condensed matter physics, among others.
Identifying Animal Tracks
Author: Richard Headstrom
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486244423
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Hunters, naturalists, scouts, and nature lovers will appreciate this comprehensive guide, featuring tracks of more than 100 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and invertebrates common to the eastern United States.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486244423
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Hunters, naturalists, scouts, and nature lovers will appreciate this comprehensive guide, featuring tracks of more than 100 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and invertebrates common to the eastern United States.
Science Research Experiments for Young People
Author: George Barr
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486261119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Experiments to do at home include inquiries into the cold light of fireflies, the speed of ants, magnetic poles, lung capacity, and many other things. Includes guidelines for performing accurate research.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486261119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Experiments to do at home include inquiries into the cold light of fireflies, the speed of ants, magnetic poles, lung capacity, and many other things. Includes guidelines for performing accurate research.