Descrição
Idioma Inglês.
CAPA DURA COM 612 PÁGINAS. Fotos coloridas.
Structure of a dynamic earth: introduction to earth science, earths shape dimensions and internal heat, atoms to minerals, how to know the minerals, how earths rocks were formed, resources and our environment, using topographic maps. Forces that attack the surface: weathering soils and mass movement, water moving underground, running water, glaciers, effects of wind waves and currents. Forces that raise the surface: plate tectonics, volcanism and plate tectonics, earthquakes and plate tectonics, mountains and plate tectonics. The ocean: propertier of ocean water, the ocean floor and its sediments, ocean currents. Earth and the universe: studying the universe, stars and galaxies, the sun and its solar system, the planets and the solar system, earths moon, earths motions. Atmospheric science. Earths history: the rock, precambrian through paleozoic, the mesozoic and cenozoic eras.