Books with title Natural Disasters

Natural hazard research has tremendous potential to help communities save lives and protect property threatened by earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and many other natural phenomena. This knowledge drives the research toward a fuller understanding of natural disasters and the development of warning systems and mitigation strategies. This title examines the science behind natural disaster research in the following chapters: Why Study Disasters?; What Are Natural Disasters?; Reading the Earth and Its Movement; Wind and Weather; Mapping and Modeling; and New Directions in Disaster Research.

Hurricanes are among nature's most powerful -- and most destructive --forces. This book takes a scientific look at how hurricanes form and travel, as well as their devastating effects on land, buildings, and people. The human response to hurricanes, including tracking techniques, preparedness policies, victim relief/rescue, and failed prevention efforts, is also addressed.

The Science Alliance 16-book series received the 2013 Academics' Choice Award for Smart Books and 2013 Book of the Year Award from Creative Child Magazine. Nick will introduce your students to blizzards, earthquakes, seismic waves, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, tornado alley, volcanoes, wildfires and more. The book also includes fun activities such as word searches, crossword puzzles, writing activities, unscrambling words and more. The thought-provoking science fair project objective is to see how a seismograph records the magnitude of an earthquake. Nick navigates Natural Disasters is a reproducible, colorful and fun book with hand-on experiments, a science fair project, metric conversions, the scientific method and a glossary. This book covers the exciting careers, many inventors, and actual tools and equipment with a touch of humor. This book is content-rich and activity strong, and intriguing for the student who is science-minded who just can't get enough information about natural disasters! This book meets national standards and perfect for a stand-alone unit or as a textbook supplement.