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1) Earth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the secrets of the Earth, answering questions about the what lies beneath the Earth's crust, why sea water is salty, what the ocean floor looks like, why Africa is splitting apart, and other topics.
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2018.
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"The third edition of this popular guide is now even better--it's full color. Colorado's multihued rocks--from white and red sandstones to green shales and pink granites--are vividly splashed across the pages in stunning color photographs. Detailed color maps and diagrams clearly distill the state's complex bedrock geology. Updated text includes information about new discoveries, such as the mastodons and other Pleistocene fossils found at Snowmass,...
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c2006
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These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. "The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology" introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.
8) Earth
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[1998]
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Introduces basic facts about geography, weather, and the composition of the earth with instructions for related experiments and projects.
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2015.
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"Discover amazing facts about Earth! Have you ever wondered how big the tallest wave ever was? How long it would take to walk the Amazon River? What an avalanche sounds like? Find out all this and more in this fascinating book, filled with hundreds of super stats about the extreme planet we live on!"--
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2018.
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Explore our planet Earth and learn what causes weather and climate, see how the water cycle works, and explore the science behind earthquakes, eruptions, and tsunamis. Find out about the threats faced by our beautiful planet--and what you can do to save planet earth.
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1998.
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"Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided...
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2012
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For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two snowflakes are exactly alike, but all are based on a common hexagon. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered the best of Bentley's...
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In 1793, William Smith, the orphan son of a village blacksmith, made a startling discovery that was to turn the science of geology on its head. While surveying the route for a canal near Bath, he noticed that the fossils found in one layer of the rocks he was excavating were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany: that by following these fossils one could trace layers of rocks as they dipped, rose...