This book is part of a book series called Gareth Stevens Vital Science-Earth Science .

This book has been graded for interest at 11-13 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Gareth Stevens Publishing .

Richard Hantula has written, edited, and translated books and articles on science and technology for more than three decades. He was the senior U. S. editor for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Science.