plate tectonics

"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind earthquakes, including where and why earthquakes happen and how to stay safe when the ground starts to shake. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--.

Explores the development of plate tectonics theory, and discusses the impact of this theory on society and the environment. Includes color photographs and maps, a chronology, biographical sketches, sidebars, and a list of resources.

Presents an introduction to plate tectonics in comic book format. Geo and his robot dog, Rocky, travel back in time to Pangea, and learn about earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, seafloor spreading, and the Earth's core, mantle, and crust. Includes activities.

Explores the creation of the Earth, cave systems, fossils, mountain formations, erosion, evolution, radioactive dating, the mysteries of extinction and plate tectonics.

Even though the ground may seem solid and still, the earth is actually never at rest. Its surface is constantly shifting, and beneath that churns a layer of molten magma. This book erupts with sizzling information about volcanoes, their study, and some of the deadliest eruptions in history..

Looks at the concepts of continental drift and plate tectonics focusing on the Earth's interior layers, what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building.

Uses the Mount St. Helens and the Santorini volcanoes and the San Francisco earthquake as dramatic evidence that our planet's subterranean regions are active and continually changing. Explains the plate tectonics theory and accompanies scientists around the world as they study the boundaries between plates of the earth's crust where earthquakes and volcanoes may occur in the future.

Examines the structure and history of Earth from the perspective of visitors from a distant galaxy, focusing on how earthquakes, volcanoes, water, and wind have shaped the planet's topography; looks at how Earth's surface is depicted on maps; shows how cartographers map the ocean floors; and includes a demonstration of how to make a simple topographic map.