How is Earth a greenhouse? How can you reduce your ‘carbon footprint’? Answer your children’s Hows, Whats and Whens about nature with this unique Amazing Questions and Answers volume.
This exciting and fact-filled title comprises all the best bits from the popular Question Time series, giving lively, informative answers to many of the WHAT, HOW, WHY and WHICH questions that young children ask about the world around them. What? Where? Why? Questions and Answers about Nature asks a variety of questions such as 'How do caterpillars grow up?', 'Why are whales such whoppers?', 'How does the frilled lizard trick its enemies?', 'Why do peacocks show off?', 'How can a shark drown?' and 'What is a rainforest?' plus hundreds more. Containing information taken from the Question Time titles Creepy-Crawlies, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Sharks, Seashore and Rainforest, with brand-new pages on fish, this bumper volume is sure to delight the inquisitive reader. Carefully researched and created to fulfil early-learning needs, the book covers a wealth of popular natural history subjects that will stimulate children's curiosity. The topics are explored in great detail with engaging text, and supported by colourful and inviting illustrations that bring the natural world vividly to life. with eye-catching cartoons and a Now I Know feature reinforces the facts that have been explained. This focused approach will provide a solid basis of knowledge, as well as inspire and educate.
Contents includes information on sea creatures, birds, polar animals, reptiles, creepy crawlies, desert animals, jungle animals, and endangered animals.
This title comprises all the best bits from the Question Time series, offering lively, informative answers to many of the WHAT, HOW, WHY and WHICH questions that young children ask about the world around them. The book asks a variety of questions such as How do caterpillars grow up?, why are whales such whoppers?, how can a shark drown? and what is a rainforest? plus hundreds more. Containing information taken from Question Time titles Creepy Crawlies, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Sharks, Seashore and Rainforest. covers a wealth of popular natural history subjects that should stimulate children's curiosity. The topics are explored in great detail with engaging text, and supported by colourful illustrations that bring the natural world to life. Further information is supplied alongside photographs, amazing facts appear eye-catching cartoons and a Now I Know feature reinforces the facts that have been explained.
How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative collection of fascinating puzzles from the natural world around us, A Mathematical Nature Walk will delight anyone who loves nature or math or both. John Adam presents ninety-six questions about many common natural phenomena--and a few uncommon ones--and then shows how to answer them using mostly basic mathematics. Can you weigh a pumpkin just by carefully looking at it? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? What causes the variations in the colors of butterfly wings, bird feathers, and oil slicks? And why are large haystacks prone to spontaneous combustion? These are just a few of the questions you'll find inside. Many of the problems are illustrated with photos and drawings, and the book also has answers, a glossary of terms, and a list of some of the patterns found in nature. About a quarter of the questions can be answered with arithmetic, and many of the rest require only precalculus. But regardless of math background, readers will learn from the informal descriptions of the problems and gain a new appreciation of the beauty of nature and the mathematics that lies behind it.
Provides answers to a variety of questions about the world around us including "How do animals carry their babies?" "How much milk does a cow give in a day?" "What is the ozone layer?" and others.