What's So Special about Planet Earth?

2009-09-01
What's So Special about Planet Earth?

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  • Author: Robert E. Wells
  • Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
  • ISBN: 0807593532
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 37

Move to another planet? Sounds interesting! In our imaginary spaceship, let's check out the planets in our solar system. Mercury is closest, but it has no air, and it's either sizzling hot or bitterly cold. The atmosphere on Venus is poisonous; plus, human beings would cook there. Mars might work, but you'd always have to be in a protective shelter. And if you got to the outer planets, you couldn't even land as they are mostly made of gas! Our home planet is looking good. Why is Earth so comfortable for plants, animals, and people? As Robert E. Wells explains, it's because of our just-right position form the sun, marvelous atmosphere, and abundant water. Our planet is very special and perfect for us, and that's why we must do all we can to keep Earth healthy.

Planet Earth Is Blue

2019-05-14
Planet Earth Is Blue

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  • Author: Nicole Panteleakos
  • Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
  • ISBN: 0525646590
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful debut novel about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."

Lucky Planet

2014-05-01
Lucky Planet

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  • Author: David Waltham
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 1848316887
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 248

Science tells us that life elsewhere in the Universe is increasingly likely to be discovered. But in fact the Earth may be a very unusual planet – perhaps the only one like it in the entire visible Universe. In Lucky Planet David Waltham asks why, and comes up with some surprising and unconventional answers. Recent geological, biological, and astronomical discoveries are bringing us closer to understanding whether we might be alone in the Universe, and this book uses these to question the conventional wisdom and suggest, instead, that the Earth may have had ‘four billion years of good weather’ purely by chance. If Earth-like worlds don’t have natural stabilising mechanisms, then intelligent observers such as ourselves will only ever look out onto those rare planets where, like the Earth, all the bad things that could have happened to the climate have fortunately cancelled each other out. So before you prepare to meet the aliens, consider that we are probably alone ...

I Am Earth

2016-10-20
I Am Earth

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  • Author: James McDonald
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780998294902
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 44

I Am Earth introduces kids to the basic concepts of earth science while also encouraging the importance of taking care of our special planet through environmental awareness and sustainability. Keeping Earth a happy healthy place to live is important for everyone big and small. In this Earth science book for beginners, kids learn what makes our planet so uniquely special and how people can work together to keep it a healthy home.

How Come?

1999-01-01
How Come?

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  • Author: Kathy Wollard
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780761112396
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

Answers to approximately 135 of kids' science questions about people, animals, and the natural world, such as why cats purr and why our fingers wrinkle in water.

Planet Earth

1986
Planet Earth

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  • Author: Jonathan Weiner
  • Publisher: Bantam
  • ISBN: 9780553343588
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

Now in paperback, the companion book to the National Geographic TV series that will re-air in December 1986, revealing astonishing insights into the mysteries of the ocean depths, shifting continents, disastrous climate changes, new energy sources, and more. Illustrated in color and black-and-white throughout.

Greetings from Planet Earth

2010-09
Greetings from Planet Earth

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  • Author: Barbara Kerley
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0439802040
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

In 1977, as twelve-year-old Theo struggles with a science class project on space exploration, questions emerge about why his father never returned from Vietnam and why Theo's mother has been keeping secrets for many years.

Probable Impossibilities

2022-04-19
Probable Impossibilities

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  • Author: Alan Lightman
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0593081323
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.

Hello, World! Planet Earth

2020-10-06
Hello, World! Planet Earth

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  • Author: Jill McDonald
  • Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN: 0593174992
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 26

Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! Toddlers love to learn about the solar system. Here's a book all about our amazing planet Earth, with easy-to-understand facts about countries, continents, oceans, landforms, habitats, and Earth's place in space. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("Light from the sun makes the moon shine") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. And each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child. It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: • Solar System • Weather • Backyard Bugs • Birds • Dinosaurs • My Body • How Do Apples Grow? • Ocean Life • Moon Landing • Pets • Arctic Animals • Construction Site • Rainforest Animals • Planet Earth • Reptiles • Cars and Trucks • Music • Baby Animals • On the Farm • Garden Time • Planes and Other Flying Machines • Rocks and Minerals • Snow

Comets

2017-10-15
Comets

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  • Author: P. Andrew Karam
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 1780238584
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousand years ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinced the Romans that Julius Caesar was a god. In 1066, Halley’s Comet was interpreted as a foreshadowing of the death of Harold the Second in the Battle of Hastings. Even today the arrival of a comet often feels auspicious, confirming our hopes, fears, and sense of wonder in the universe. In Comets, P. Andrew Karam takes the reader on a far-ranging exploration of these most beautiful and dramatic objects in the skies, revealing how comets and humanity have been interwoven throughout history. He delves into the science of comets and how it has changed over time; the way comets have been depicted in art, religion, literature, and popular culture; and how comets have appeared in the heavens through the centuries. Comprehensive in scope and beautifully illustrated throughout, the book will appeal not only to the budding astronomer, but to anyone with an appreciation for these compelling and remarkable celestial bodies.