Going inside
Subtitle: junior science
By: [texts, Beatrice McLeod and Christina Coster-Longman ; illustrations, Lorenzo Cecchi [and others]]
Contributors: Coster-Longman, Christina, 1950-; Cecchi, Lorenzo, illustrator
Publisher: McRae Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Florence, Italy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9788860980410
Subjects: Science; Planets; Bees; Wasps; Volcanoes; Lakes
Other titles: Going inside junior science :
Description: "Take an awesome scientific journey in thirty strikingly illustrated, foldout chapters. Travel from the vastness of space and the wonders of planet Earth right down to the amazing lives of creepy crawlies and the miracles of the human skeleton and the cells that compose our bodies"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The galaxy; title: The solar system; title: The sun; title: Inside the sun; title: Mercury and Venus; title: The Earth and the moon; title: Formation of the moon; title: Mars; title: The red planet; title: Jupiter; title: Death of a comet; title: Saturn; title: The ring system; title: Uranus and Neptune; title: New moons; title: Dwarf planets; title: Beyond Pluto; title: The Earth; title: Inside the Earth; title: A giant jigsaw: plate; title: Tectonics; title: Puzzle pieces; title: Volcanoes; title: Eruption!; title: Earthquakes; title: Earthquake effects; title: Lakes and rivers; title: Life of a river; title: The ocean; title: The ocean floor; title: Weather and climate; title: Inside a cyclone; title: Deserts; title: How deserts work; title: Planet under pressure; title: Problems; title: Termintes; title: Inside a termite nest; title: Bees and wasps; title: Inside a beehive; title: Butterflies and moths; title: Metamorphosis; title: Flies: stunt fliers; title: Flies in our houses; title: True bugs; title: Water bugs; title: Spiders' webs; title: Spiders; title: Beetles; title: Scarab beetles; title: Ants on the march; title: Leaf-cutter ants; title: Centipedes and millipedes; title: Millipede defence; title: Under the microscope; title: Cells; title: The skeleton; title: Bones and joints.