Author : Linda Cernak
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1633625141
This book discusses the science behind tornadoes and their effects. The chapters describe deadly tornadoes, examine the weather conditions that cause tornadoes, and explain how people prepare for these disasters. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.
Author : Carol Hand
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502646579
Tornadoes are one of the deadliest and most frightening natural disasters. They roar through an area quickly, tearing a path of total destruction. What is the science behind them? This book explains what a tornado is, the meteorological conditions required for tornadoes to form, and what happens inside their swirling bodies. Using fun facts, maps, and vivid photographs, readers will learn about locations of tornadoes in the United States, including Tornado Alley, and ways of measuring a tornado's strength. They will also explore ways to plan and prepare for a tornado, and how to determine the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning. Readers will examine advancements in tornado-prediction technology, allowing them a better understanding the mechanics of one of the most destructive events on Earth.
Author : New Scientist
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1473651190
Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about because they are so specialised, or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously), tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body and planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising and unpromising work. How to Make a Tornado is about the margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes, but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways. Investigating everything from what it's like to die, to exploding trousers and recycled urine, this book is a reminder that science is intensely creative and often very amusing - and when their minds run free, scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else.
Author : Keay Davidson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0671000292
The most dangerous and least understood atmospheric phenomenon, tornadoes are the subject of a upcoming Steven Spielberg thriller entitled Twister. Complete with spectacular close-up photos, this book explores the genesis of tornadoes and profiles the scientists who try to monitor them.
Author : Rick Thomas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404809307
Discusses tornadoes, how they form, and the damage they can do.
Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544965825
Describes the work of Robin Tanamachi, a storm chaser who studies how tornadoes form, detailing her team's work in a Doppler radar truck to obtain data that may enable lifesaving discoveries.
Author : Seymour Simon
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0062470345
In this updated and revised edition of Tornadoes, award-winning science writer Seymour Simon gives readers an in-depth look at these captivating and powerful storms through fascinating facts and stunning full-color photographs. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children. Readers will learn all about tornadoes, from how they are first created to the destruction they leave behind. This updated edition includes: author’s note stunning full-color photographs glossary index a list of websites and additional reading sources Supports the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards.
Author : Alvin Silverstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766029767
"Discusses the science behind tornadoes, including how and where they form, the scientific methods to track and predict them, and tornado safety tips"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Lee Sandlin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307473589
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations In Storm Kings, Lee Sandlin retraces America's fascination and unique relationship to tornadoes and the weather. From Ben Franklin's early experiments, to "the great storm debates" of the nineteenth century, to heartland life in the early twentieth century, Sandlin shows how tornado chasing helped foster the birth of meteorology, recreating with vivid descriptions some of the most devastating storms in America's history. Drawing on memoirs, letters, eyewitness testimonies, and numerous archives, Sandlin brings to life the forgotten characters and scientists that changed a nation and how successive generations came to understand and finally coexist with the spiraling menace that could erase lives and whole towns in an instant.
Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823442314
What in the world is a tornado? In this age of extreme weather, this newly updated edition of Gail Gibbons' informative introduction to tornadoes, with safety tips included, answers that question. Tornadoes form when hot, humid air rises from the ground and meets with the cooler, denser air that is falling back to Earth. The two airstreams begin to swirl, pulling in more and more air to form a funnel-shaped cloud. The winds can swirl faster than 261 miles per hour! Newly revised and vetted by weather experts from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Tornadoes is an accessible introduction to this fascinating phenomenon. Using her praised combination of clear text and detailed illustrations, Gail Gibbons shares more than fifty tornado facts. . . . including how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, and the safest places to go in case one should happen near you. Featuring simple, kid-friendly text, colorful paintings, and well-labeled diagrams, Gail Gibbons' nonfiction titles have been called ""staples of any collection" (Kirkus Reviews) and offer clear, accessible introductions to complex topics for young readers beginning to explore the world.
