Kramer, Stephen P

Discusses different types of lightning, how they form, where they happen, what thunder is, and how to keep safe when traveling.

Describes the work of Dennis Kunkel, a microscopist from Hawaii, and provides illustrations of microscopic worlds of plants, bugs, and mites.

Explains in text and illustrations how plants and animals, from the simple one-celled organisms to the complex mammals, "breathe.".

Storm chaser Warren Faidley discusses the techniques, dangers, and difficulties of photographing lightning, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

Theodoric of Freiberg, a Dominican friar of the early fourteenth century, discovers how sunlight and drops of water make rainbows.

Describes the formation, different types, and study of tornadoes.

Uses questions about hypothetical situations to introduce the process of thinking according to scientific method.

Discusses different types of avalanches, how they form, where they happen, and how to keep safe when traveling in snowy mountains.

Describes how caves form and what kinds of life can be found in them, and shows how the delicate underground environment must be protected.