Book description
CONTENTS:
1. WEATHER
The weather
Symbols on maps
Estimating weather
Humidity and clouds
Wind
Watching and forecasting weather
How weather affects people
When the weather turns nasty
Water movements
2. ROCKS AND WEATHERING
Finding out about rocks
Finding out more about rocks
How rocks change through weathering
Erosion
Down a mine
Changes in rock layers
Layered rocks
Sediments and fossils
Metamorphic rocks
Uses of rocks
Uses of minerals and ores
3. TECTONIC PROCESSES
Changes in rock layers
Volcanoes
Volcanic islands
Earthquakes
4. SOIL
Looking at soil
What is in the soil?
Soil texture
Soil movements and soil types
5. EARTH IN SPACE
The Sun and the planets
How the Earth moves through space