Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast
Learn everything about Planet Earth in 60 seconds!

This book is packed with a huge amount of info about the planet we live on, broken down into fun, fascinating bite-size facts. Key earth sciences like geography, geology, ecology and natural history are clearly explained using colorful graphics and easy-to-follow text. There's even a pullout wallchart to record readers' progress in each subject.

It's the ideal way to go from newcomer to know-it-all in record time!

Topics include formation and structure, changing planet;rocks and minerals, blue planet, the atmosphere, and living planet.

Planet Earth:

Since it was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has developed into an amazing world. Its surface is forever changing as powerful forces inside the planet pull and push on the crust above, building mountains, tearing apart continents and constructing whole new pieces of land. Surrounding it is an atmosphere of gasses, which provides organisms with life-giving oxygen and produces our weather (with a little help from the Sun). Our planet may appear large, but it is still quite fragile. Changes to our climate over the last 150 years have threatened many habitats around the world, endangering the species living there and bringing many of them to the verge of extinction.

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Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast
Learn everything about Planet Earth in 60 seconds!

This book is packed with a huge amount of info about the planet we live on, broken down into fun, fascinating bite-size facts. Key earth sciences like geography, geology, ecology and natural history are clearly explained using colorful graphics and easy-to-follow text. There's even a pullout wallchart to record readers' progress in each subject.

It's the ideal way to go from newcomer to know-it-all in record time!

Topics include formation and structure, changing planet;rocks and minerals, blue planet, the atmosphere, and living planet.

Planet Earth:

Since it was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has developed into an amazing world. Its surface is forever changing as powerful forces inside the planet pull and push on the crust above, building mountains, tearing apart continents and constructing whole new pieces of land. Surrounding it is an atmosphere of gasses, which provides organisms with life-giving oxygen and produces our weather (with a little help from the Sun). Our planet may appear large, but it is still quite fragile. Changes to our climate over the last 150 years have threatened many habitats around the world, endangering the species living there and bringing many of them to the verge of extinction.

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Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast

Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast

by Jon Richards
Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast

Planet Earth: Bite-Size Facts to Make Learning Fun and Fast

by Jon Richards

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Overview

Learn everything about Planet Earth in 60 seconds!

This book is packed with a huge amount of info about the planet we live on, broken down into fun, fascinating bite-size facts. Key earth sciences like geography, geology, ecology and natural history are clearly explained using colorful graphics and easy-to-follow text. There's even a pullout wallchart to record readers' progress in each subject.

It's the ideal way to go from newcomer to know-it-all in record time!

Topics include formation and structure, changing planet;rocks and minerals, blue planet, the atmosphere, and living planet.

Planet Earth:

Since it was formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has developed into an amazing world. Its surface is forever changing as powerful forces inside the planet pull and push on the crust above, building mountains, tearing apart continents and constructing whole new pieces of land. Surrounding it is an atmosphere of gasses, which provides organisms with life-giving oxygen and produces our weather (with a little help from the Sun). Our planet may appear large, but it is still quite fragile. Changes to our climate over the last 150 years have threatened many habitats around the world, endangering the species living there and bringing many of them to the verge of extinction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783127238
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date: 12/14/2021
Series: 60-Second Genius , #3
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile: IG1170L (what's this?)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jon Richards is an award-winning author of non-fiction books for children. He specialises in visual literacy, infographics and data visualisation.

Table of Contents

Planet Earth 6

Chapter 1 Formation and Structure

Solar Family 9

How Old Is The Earth? 10

Planet Formation 12

Our Place in Space 14

Earth Under Fire 16

The Moon 18

What's Inside Earth? 20

Giant Magnet 22

Chapter 2 Changing Planet

A Violent World 25

Plate Tectonics 26

Changing Landmass 28

Plate Boundaries 30

Earthquakes 32

Tsunamis 34

Building Mountains 36

Volcanic Eruptions 38

Where Are Volcanoes? 40

Hot Springs and Geysers 42

Chapter 3 Rocks and Minerals

Hard Rock 45

The Rock Cycle 46

Igneous Rocks 48

Sedimentary Rocks 50

Making Fossils 52

Metamorphic Rocks 54

Weathering and Erosion 56

Soil 58

Chapter 4 Blue Planet

Water World 61

Where is the Water? 62

The Water Cycle 64

Seas and Oceans 66

The Moving Ocean 68

Where Sea Meets Land 70

Down to the Abyss 72

Rivers 74

Waterfalls 76

Lakes 78

Underground Water and Caves 80

Glaciers and Ice Caps 82

Chapter 5 The Atmosphere

The Air We Breathe 85

The Atmosphere's Structure 86

What's In Air? 88

Moving Air 90

Climate 92

Climate Change 94

The Seasons 96

Hurricanes and Typhoons 98

Tornadoes 100

Drought 102

El Niño 104

Chapter 6 Living Planet

A World of Habitats 107

Deserts 108

Forests 110

Grasslands 112

Mountains 114

The Poles 116

Ocean Habitats 118

Glossary 120

Index 124

Acknowledgments 128

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