Usborne 1st Encyclopedia of Our World

by Brooks, Felicity

• ISBN13: 9780746028391
• ISBN10: 0746028393
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Edc Pub

Summary

-- Amazing photographs and illustrations combine with lively text to illustrate the basics of our planet's geography, its animals, and what's out in space

-- Animals has separate sections on: mammals, birds, water-life and bugs

-- Our World covers: the Earth, its geography, weather, climates and ecology

-- Space introduces the wonders of the Universe and is Internet-linked

Table of Contents

Our planet	p. 4
What's out in space?	p. 6
On the Moon	p. 8
Looking at the Earth	p. 10
Day and night	p. 12
The seasons	p. 14
The weather	p. 16
Storms and winds	p. 18
Rocks and fossils	p. 20
Earthquakes	p. 22
Volcanoes	p. 24
Following a river	p. 26
Floods	p. 28
In the mountains	p. 30
The seashore	p. 32
Seas and oceans	p. 34
Under the sea	p. 36
Under the ground	p. 38
Caves and caverns	p. 40
Dusty deserts	p. 42
Grassy plains	p. 44
In the rainforest	p. 46
Icy world	p. 48
Rivers of ice	p. 50
In the city	p. 52
Useful Earth	p. 54
The web of life	p. 56
World in danger	p. 58
World map	p. 60
Index	p. 62
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