Extreme weather : science tackles global warming and climate change / Kathleen Simpson.
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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | J551.5 SIM (Text) | 36015000576153 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | J 551.5 SIM (Text) | 30664100188884 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | J 551.5 Sim (Text) | 30308100917617 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Thomasville Public Library | J 551.5 S (Text) | 25908006117720 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Transylvania County Library | J 551.5 SIM (Text) | 38079101621852 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
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