A New true book

Describes features of the Indian Ocean, including its plants, animals, and volcanic activity.

Describes the general characteristics of comets and gives a brief history of Halley's comet discussing its expected reappearance in late 1985-early 1986.

Explains the development of our system of numbers, place value, and why numbers are used.

Identifies the continent of North America, divides it into six regions including the Eastern Seaboard, Great Lakes, Arctic Circle, and Central America, and discusses their countries, states, cities, and geographical features.

Introduces the geographical features of Australia, its animals, and Aborigines.

Discusses characteristics of various sections of South America such as the Andes, the Amazon rain forest, and the pampas.

Briefly describes Africa's regions: the Middle East countries, the Sahara, the equatorial rain forest, the west coast, east Africa, island countries off the southeast coast, and southern Africa.

Describes the weather conditions that produce storms and the damage that can be done by rain, snow, wind, dust, ice, thunder, lightning, and hail.

Describes in simple terms the meteors, comets, and asteroids that are part of our solar system and discusses the various theories concerning their origin and their effect on life on Earth.

A basic introduction to plants with simple discussions of algae, fungi, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds, and including pertinent experiments.