Our Planet Today (21st Century Science)

Lafleur, Claude

ISBN 10: 0836850033 ISBN 13: 9780836850031

Publisher: World Almanac Education

Synopsis

Uses illustrations, maps, diagrams, and text to discuss the landscapes of Earth, including information on various techniques used to map the surface.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-9-In each of these densely informative surveys, short lists, numbered keys, and explanatory captions surround hundreds of small, computer-generated images. Readers are barraged with data; plate tectonics, for example, are introduced in Inside the Earth with a map of the 13 plates, along with their names and arrows to indicate their directions of drift, a cutaway of the globe to show zones and currents in the mantle layer, six views of landforms various kinds of plate encounters engender, two blocks of general text, and eight captions-all on one spread. Both volumes are arranged into single-topic spreads, and though they cover similar areas, there is surprisingly little overlap; Earth deals with our planet's origins, structure, larger surface features, and water, leaving the work of erosion on the landscape, cartography, and each continent's physical geography to Planet. Both finish up with brief but current lists of books, videos, and Web sites. Despite colors that are sometimes so bright that superimposed text or directional lines are hard to make out, and occasional misstatements (the Dead Sea is not "the lowest place in the world"), students looking for quick overviews of a range of topics related to the Earth's physical history will find these helpful, and the emphasis on visual presentation of information adds a dimension to more conventional studies, such as Roy Gallant's Earth (Marshall Cavendish, 1998).
John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Almanac Education
• ISBN 10: 0836850033
• ISBN 13: 9780836850031
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 61