earth

An introduction to planet Earth, its features, and the forces that have shaped them.

"Fun pictograms and infographics about planet Earth make learning about math topics such as volume, scale diagrams, division, and number lines easy and fun. In this book, readers go on a mission to protect threatened areas around the world and use their mathematical skills to measure geysers, protect forests, and check on glaciers. Math puzzles and exercises help children build confidence in their math skills."--.

This book takes a comprehensive look at everything relating to the earth, from the big bang theory to climate and the various life forms the planet supports, all brought to life with fantastic photography, illustrative diagrams and fascinating facts.

Explores rocks and minerals of the Earth. Uses video segments with animation and documentary footage, interactive experiments, journal activities, interactive multimedia tools, with reference tools and web links.

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

Explores the Earth's changes due to water and erosion. Video adventures include dams, deltas, glaciers and rivers.

Flash point -- The gathering storm -- The clouds burst -- Wisdom of the ages -- The creedal climate -- Toward better interpretations -- Anchored in Scripture -- Guided by theology -- Good God, cruel world -- Peace through paradise -- Young-earth Darwinism -- Faith, morality, and long creation days -- Big bang : the Bible said it first -- Scientific signs of old age -- Challenges to an old cosmos -- The reliability of radiometric dating -- The scientific case for a young cosmos -- Physical reality breaks through the fog -- Narrow time windows -- The significance of man -- A clear "day" interpretation -- Councils attempt to bring calm -- Tranquillity through testing.

The pages are crammed with all the essential information on the Earth, from how it formed to its climate.

Basic questions are answered: What is Astronomy and its history? What is Gravity? Light and the Spectrum? What are the origins of the Moon? Telescopes? What about the Earth's interior and atmosphere?.