Photographs and text provide a scientific introduction to heat, explaining what heat is, how it is made and measured, and the important balance between hot and cold for living things.
Looks at heat as a form of energy, explaining how heat is created and measured, and discussing conduction, convection, radiation, and heat capacity. Includes experiments.
Presents an introduction to chemical energy, explaining the different sources of energy, how energy is stored, and how chemical energy is converted to other forms, including the concepts of heat, combustion, temperature, and enthalpy, and more.
Discusses temperature, how it affects matter and is affected by pressure, how it is measured and why that measurement must be precise, and the different scales used for measuring temperature.
Describes a number of animals that can endure the extreme heat including the monarch butterfly, fennec fox, burrowing owl, antelope jackrabbit, camel, and others.
The Magic School Bus slides into the icy arctic to learn why people, animals, and things lose heat and how they preserve it, from house insulation to walrus blubber. Original.
