Author : Barbara Tufty
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486144437
This highly readable and informative guide answers hundreds of fascinating questions about storms and atmospheric phenomena. In addition to dispelling common misconceptions, it imparts a wealth of solid scientific data about hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, wind, fog, ice storms, and other events. The text is embellished with 72 drawings and 20 photographs.
Author : Pat J. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1999-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1576072606
This easily accessible reference work reveals the workings of savage tropical storms, charts their actions and cycles, assesses their economic and environmental impact, and reviews the latest research on hurricanes.
Author : Barbara Tufty
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Hurricanes
ISBN :
Sweeping across the earth's surface and into the atmosphere are invisible masses of air--ever restless, ever moving. Set in motion by the heat of the sun, stirred by the spinning of the earth, directe.
Author : Logan
Publisher : Mark Twain Media
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2002-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580378684
Connect students in grades 5 and up with science using Atmosphere and Weather. This 80-page book covers topics such as heat absorption, relative humidity, barometric pressure, measuring wind, and interpreting weather maps. It contains subject-specific concepts and terminology, inquiry-based activities, challenge questions, extension activities, assessments, curriculum resources, a bibliography, and materials lists. The book supports National Science Education Standards, NCTM standards, and Standards for Technological Literacy.
Author : Paul Brooks
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486795470
Narrative portraits of America's great literary naturalists offer a 200-year history of wildlife conservation: Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, Beebe, Carson, and many others. "Brisk and illuminating." — The New York Times Book Review.
Author : Hugo Steinhaus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486238753
100 problems—with instructive solutions—on numbers, equations, polygons, polyhedra, and many other topics. Very challenging. Additional 13 problems without solutions.
Author : David Longshore
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1438118791
Presents a detailed encyclopedia of named hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, descriptions of storm activity, definitions of meteorological terms, and more.
Author : Alwyn Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135455589
In 438 alphabetically-arranged essays, this work provides a useful overview of the core mathematical background for nonlinear science, as well as its applications to key problems in ecology and biological systems, chemical reaction-diffusion problems, geophysics, economics, electrical and mechanical oscillations in engineering systems, lasers and nonlinear optics, fluid mechanics and turbulence, and condensed matter physics, among others.
Author : Richard Headstrom
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486244423
Hunters, naturalists, scouts, and nature lovers will appreciate this comprehensive guide, featuring tracks of more than 100 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and invertebrates common to the eastern United States.
Author : George Barr
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486261119
Experiments to do at home include inquiries into the cold light of fireflies, the speed of ants, magnetic poles, lung capacity, and many other things. Includes guidelines for performing accurate research.
