Books with title Natural Disasters

This book is full of interesting facts on natural disasters, their causes, and their consequences. While we have very little control over the occurrences of earthquakes and volcanoes, other natural disasters—heatwaves, hailstorms, hurricanes, and so on—are increasing due to climate change. Learn more about these phenomena and how we can protect the earth.

Beware--storms are brewing, the earth is rumbling, and volcanoes are getting ready to spew forth hot ash and lava. Your task: issue a warning to those who live in the danger zone. But you'll have to get through these mazes in order to accomplish your mission. Do you have the courage to face these natural disasters? * Tornado! Make your way through the cornfield to reach a threatened town and go from door to door until everyone's out safely. * Help--a little puppy's caught in a hurricane. Can you rescue it? * From San Francisco to Alaska, earthquakes shake the ground. Scramble through tunnels to place a sensor probe in a fault; find a clear path to the victims; and get out of town before the roads crumble.* Prevent an avalanche by dynamiting a mountain--but you'll have to climb up there first. * The animals in this flooded farmland have climbed on top of houses and barns to escape. Get in a boat and navigate through a clear waterway, so you can bring all of them to dry land. * Fire has destroyed a wooded area. If you can plant a tree at each flag--without backtracking--you'll reforest it. * Evacuate campers caught in a forest fire and trapped by the foot of an exploding volcano. You'll need all your wits to succeed! 64 pages, 43 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 11.

Which volcanic eruption caused the "year without a summer"? What is a seismograph? How are tornadoes measured? Real World Data presents information about familiar curricular topics through charts and graphs. Each title shows how to organize data in different visual forms, and how to interpret and create tables, line graphs, bar graphs, and pie charts.

We live on a turbulent planet, whose surfaces move, erupt, quake, and burn. Gravity pulls at the land, causing dangerous masses of mud or rock to slide—destroying homes and taking lives. Huge slabs of snow careen down mountains, burying everything in their path. And, the atmosphere churns restlessly, causing wild winds to blow and heavy rains to fall. Go as close as you’d ever want to Earth’s greatest disasters, vividly pictured. Look into the eye of the hurricane from high above, and at those funnels of fury known a tornadoes. Safely see lighting flash across dark skies—its electric streaks so beautiful and so lethal. From forest infernos to drought-ravaged lands, from fallen space debris to troubled waters rising into tsunamis, you’ll find how these tragedies happen, how we can prevent them, and how we pick up the pieces after they occur.