Water
Subtitle: Its Global Nature (Allaby, Michael//Elements)
Publisher: Facts on File
Published: April 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780816025268
Subjects: Economic geology; Hydrobiology; Hydrology (freshwater); Pollution of seas & oceans; Science: General Issues; Hydrology; Oceanography (General); Juvenile Nonfiction; Science; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); General; Natural Resources; Science & Nature - General; Climate; Water; Water pollution
Description: 520 An informative and entertaining, non-technical examination of the nature, properties, and importance of water. The text is divided into four principal parts--what is water?; water and life; water in motion; and water and humans, including the problem of pollution--and is thoroughly illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned artwork. Planet Earth is unique in the known solar system because of the presence of liquid water--a substance which covers almost three-quarters of the total surface area of the globe. In straightforward, non-technical language, this book examines this extraordinary substance--which we all take for granted.