This book is packed with stunning colour photographs and diagrams. Together with a detailed and expertly written text, it provides an accurate, comprehensive account of the topic of weather for key stage 3 students. Main text is supported by a series of fact files which provide information at a glance: history file, future file, test and fact files. The topics covered include: the sun and the atmosphere, clouds, rain snow and hail, wind, electric storms, weather patterns and climate, air masses, depressions and anti-cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes, measuring and forecasting the weather, and coping with extremes of weather.

 

This book is part of a book series called Science Fact Files .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Chris Oxlade is an experienced writer of children's non-fiction and specialises in scientific subjects.