Books in Reading Essentials: Discovering Science series

Characterized by less than ten inches of precipitation a year, deserts can be hot and sandy or cold and snowy. Learn how plants, animals, and people adapt to the dry conditions found in the deserts of the world.

Glass is made much the same today as it has been for thousands of years. The uses have expanded from jewelry and window glass to fiber optics and gigantic mirrors on telescopes.

This title begins with physics--energy, matter, gravity, mass, and relativity--and follows the history of scientific theories, discoveries, and technological advances, which have solved some of the mysteries of space while unleashing new mysteries to be solved.

Describes characteristics of various groups of insects.

Explains what causes motion and how to stop it.

The telescope brought the universe within our field of vision. Different types of telescopes, including refracting and reflecting telescopes and radio, infrared, and ultraviolet telescopes, or x-ray telescopes, are explained. Orbiting observatories and unmanned space vehicles and their amazing discoveries are also discussed.

The goal of all organisms is to stay alive and reproduce. Learn how regulation and behavior help them accomplish this tremendous feat.

Scientists such as Keplar, Copernicus, and Newton and their theories begin this discussion of our solar system. Eclipses, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets are just some of the fascinating lights in the sky explained.

All living things depend on one another and their environment. Examine how they are woven together in the intricate web of life.

Bone up on how the skeletal and muscular systems work together to provide support, protection, strength, and movement for the body.

Defines soil, how it forms in layers, and how it's used.

Wind and water erosion are responsible for constatntly changing shorelines.