What's in a battery? How hard is iron? What are the parts of a plant called? Is a lever the same as a fulcrum? All these and hundreds more answers are provided in this new visual presentation of essential science information. Each book concentrates on a specific area of science so that students can quickly find all the chemistry, physics, geology, technology and other answers they seek. Each book defines the main concepts and terms and explains what each science is about. And since the books are, in fact, visual encyclopedia of science, they also help students build crucial reading and vocabulary kills as well as understand how science operates and is written about. The books contain simple clear text, with hundreds of full-colour illustrations used forcefully to provide additional information and insight. Abundant cross references and other pointers help students to see how the main terms and devices fit together into larger concepts and procedures, thus helping the processes of scientific thinking, independent investigation and rigorous writing. SAMPLE ENTRIES: VOLUME 1: WEATHER Acid rain, anemometer, cirrostratus cloud, El Nino, jet stream, ozone, smog, stratosphere, tornado, virga.

 

This is volume 1 in Visual Science Encyclopedia .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 2001 by Atlantic Europe Publishing Co Ltd .