Fleming Community Library

Presents twenty-two poems about geology. End notes provide information about the earth's surface and interior, types of rocks, and how volcanoes, glaciers, and erosion modify the landscape.

This story is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked but were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

Reference on rocks and minerals, volcanoes and earthquakes, climate and weather. Photos, practical experiments and projects.

"Carefully leveled text and engaging full-color photos introduce early fluent readers to the science behind tornadoes, including where and why tornadoes happen and how to stay safe when the sky starts to swirl. Includes activity, glossary, and index."--

Uses text, illustrations, and images of Earth taken from space to explore the planet's physical features and the forces that have shaped them.

This awe-inspiring collection of photographs gives those of us stuck on Earth a glimpse of what our home planet looks like from the window of a space craft... and the big blue marble has never looked more beautiful.

A comet rushes toward the earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom. But mankind is too busy hating, stealing, scheming, and killing to care. As luminous green trails of cosmic dust and vapor stream across the heavens, blood flows beneath: nations wage all-out war, bitter strikes erupt, and jealous lovers plot revenge and murder. The earth slips past the comet by the narrowest of margins, but all succumb to the gases in...

Introduces black holes, describing their physical features, how they were discovered, what causes them, and where they exist in space.

Features a glossary of over 1,400 words and terms related to Earth science; contains biographies of more than 250 people who have contributed to the understanding of Earth science; and includes a chronology of events in the history of Earth science, and a selection of key charts and tables.