Record details

• ISBN: 1426303599
• ISBN: 9781426303593
• ISBN: 9781426302817
• Physical Description: 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: Washington, DC : National Geographic, [2008]
• Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Message From the Consultant 8 -- Map of Extreme Weather Around the World 9 -- Timeline of Historical Weather Events 10 -- 1 Clues From the Past 12 -- Extreme expeditions hunt for clues in ice -- Drilling through Antarctic ice -- A changing Earth -- Greenhouse effect -- Ozone layer -- A warmer world -- 2 Learn About Drought 20 -- Solving the mystery of the Maya -- Searching in caves for answers -- Dust Bowl -- Desertification -- Easing the effects of drought -- 3 El Nino and La Nina 28 -- What are El Nino and La Nina? -- Learning the rhythms of El Nino -- Great flood of 2006 -- Making history -- El Nino every year? -- 4 Hurricane! 36 -- Anatomy of a hurricane -- Hurricanes no one will forget -- Not enough information -- Who names hurricanes? -- Tracking Hurricane Helene -- Meet a meteorologist -- 5 Collecting Dust 44 -- Dust may be a good thing -- Dust and the Amazon rain forest -- How much rain does a rain forest need? -- Answers lead to more questions -- 6 Forecast for the Future 50 -- More than mushrooms -- Other extreme -- A glimpse of the future? -- Blizzards-the worst and the whitest -- Years Ahead 58.

Target Audience Note:

1110L Lexile

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.6 2 127506.

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