Título:
Natural disasters / written by Claire Watts ; consultant, Trevor Day.
ISBN:
9780756620721
9780756620738
9780756630690
9781405313421
Autor personal:
Edición:
First American edition.
Información de publicación:
London ; New York : DK Pub., 2006.
Descripción física:
72 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
Contenido:
Dynamic planet -- Restless earth -- What is a tsunami? -- Wave power -- Walls of water -- A drowned world -- Recovery begins -- Tsunami warnings -- Earth shakes -- Surviving a quake -- Mighty volcanoes -- Rivers of fire -- Landslides and avalanches -- Earth's atmosphere -- Wild weather -- Hurricane force -- Battling the wind -- Hurricane Katrina -- Twisting tornadoes -- Flood alert -- Raging waters -- Drought and famine -- Wildfire -- Fighting fires -- Climate change -- Unnatural disasters -- Infectious diseases -- Epidemic -- Future disasters -- Did you know? -- Timeline -- Find out more.
Síntesis:
Describes a wide range of natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and epidemics.
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NC1220L Lexile
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocm66392731
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