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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the Earth's most explosive volcanoes and what it's like to experience an earthquake feels like in this picture-led guide to the hotspots of the world This book tells you everything you need to know about the Earth's most extraordinary natural forces - from active volcanoes, including Kilanea in Hawaii and Etna in Italy, to devastating earthquakes that have hit San Francisco and Japan. Discover how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius devastated...
2) Volcanoes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Text and pictures describe many aspect of volcanoes including eruptions, lava rivers, ash clouds, steaming springs, and more.
4) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the nature and causes of volcanoes, ways to predict eruptions, ways that people have adapted to live around them, and some major eruptions in history.
5) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian/Collins
Pub. Date
[2006], c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains, in simple terms, the characteristics of volcanoes and describes some famous eruptions and their aftermath.
6) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the formation and characteristics of volcanoes, the causes and effects of their eruption, and describes specific volcanic eruptions such as that of Mount St. Helen's in 1980.
9) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
12) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses volcanoes, what causes an eruption, and the warning signs.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a basic introduction to volcanoes, explaining how they form and how volcanic eruptions occur, and describing the effect of different kinds of eruptions on people and the environment.
15) Volcanoes
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
Even though our planet seems to be a solid, stable place to live, it is moving and changing constantly. Most of the time these changes cannot be felt since they occur over long periods of time. But there ae occasions when sudden and violent natural phenomena happen -- earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. within minuts or even seconds, the surface of the Earth is changed drastically forever!
Author
Publisher
W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The Earth in Turmoil describes earthquakes and volcanoes from the point of view of scientists who are trying to understand their causes and forecast future activity. Volcanologists risk their lives to scoop samples from an erupting volcano's throat. Geologists scratch at the desert floor, looking for traces of ancient tremors. Seismographers track and interpret the sudden movements of rock deep beneath the Earth's surface. All of them are finding...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Various historic volcanoes, and the ability to survive them. It includes the Toba volcano, from Indonesia.
"The true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano, the largest eruption in the past 28 million years, and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution."--
Some 73,000 years ago the eruption of the Toba supervolcano released the energy of a million tons of explosives; seven hundred cubic miles of magma spewed outward in an explosion,...
20) Volcanes
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Discusses volcanoes and their eruptions, geysers, hot springs, and volcanoes on other planets.
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