Moving Earth
By: David and Helen Orme
Contributors: Orme, Helen
Series: Earth explorer; Become an Earth explorer
Publisher: QED; QED Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848354111
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Geology
Description: "Unearth all the need-to-know facts about your planet in this guide to understanding how the Earth works"Cover. This title discusses how the Earth moves, what causes the movements and the effects these movements have - especially the eruptions of volcanoes.
Table of contents: title: Moving world; title: Tectonic plates; title: Pangaea; title: Ring of Fire; title: Mountains; title: What is a volcano?; title: Living with volcanoes; title: Super-volcanoes; title: Undersea volcanoes; title: Earthquakes; title: Landslides; title: Tsunamis; title: When Earth shakes.