plate tectonics

The devastating and fascinating details of how earthquakes and volcanoes happen will engage readers from the moment they open this book.

"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.