Weather

by John Farndon, Sean Callery, Miranda Smith

Overview

From wild tornadoes to blinding blizzards, learn what makes our climate and weather work in this stunning visual guide.

Fiercer hurricanes, hungrier wildfires, flash floods, and desertification are becoming a part of daily life as our climate shifts and changes. Weather covers the most important areas of this timely topic, delivering up-to-date expert information on everything from the water cycle to winds, cloud galleries, fog, and snow, and from extreme weather like hurricanes, supercell tornadoes, firestorms, and dust storms to the people who predict them and try to save others.Beautifully laid out images of weather objects and processes using satellite imagery, time-lapse photography, and eyewitness reportage put readers in the eye of the storm for close-up learning. A must-read for curious young scientists interested in the weather systems that shape our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338676204
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	496,646
File size:	77 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Sean Callery is a teacher and an author of fiction and nonfiction for kids.
Miranda Smith is an experienced editor who has written many books for both children and adults on subjects ranging from sharks and the human body to ancient Egypt and courgettes. Having raised three children in east London, she still lives in the family home with her husband and two cats.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4-7-These books move beyond basic introductory texts and provide questions as well as answers to some of the complex aspects of each of these topics. An explanation of a concept is followed by at least one simple experiment or demonstration (usually no more than four or five steps). Needed supplies (inexpensive household objects) are noted in a boxed sidebar with a description of what principles are at work. Photographs illustrate each step. In the first book, Farndon defines color; points out that ours is a three-color world; and discusses mixing, changing, contrasting, and shimmering colors. Activities include how to make a spectrum, how to mix colored light, and how to create a color wheel. In the next book, the author turns his attention to electricity, discussing charges, circuits, conductors, and insulators. Activities include creating a Xerox effect and making an electroscope. The last book looks at the role of the Sun, winds and how they blow, tornadoes and hurricanes, clouds and humidity, and rain and storms. How-to experiments include making a sundial, a mobile, a vortex, and a wet and dry hygrometer. Good resources for reports and for those who want to know how and why things work.-Edith Ching, St. Albans School, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, DC Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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