Geography Smart Junior
Geography Smart Junior

Author: J. Allen Queen

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 1996-11-05

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780679775225

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Eccentric billionaire Bartholomew Van Morrow has hidden a huge treasure, and it's up to you and the Smart Juniors gang to find it. Share the adventures of Bridget, Babette, Barnaby, and Beauregard, as their search takes them around the world. Your travels will teach you how to: -- explain how rivers and oceans shape the earth -- read and design maps -- find specific locations using longitude and latitude -- identify land forms such as peninsulas, capes, deltas, and plateaus You'll learn cool new things about our world, and end with the treasure in your hands! Geography Smart Junior is part of the "Smart Junior" series of books that help kids in grades 6-8 master the basics of different subjects with a fun, relaxed, interactive approach to learning.

Maps and Geography
Maps and Geography

Author: Ken Jennings

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1442473282

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Offers facts about the highest landmarks and mountains, the deepest depth of the seas, what countries are shaped like food, ocean inhabitants, and capital location changes.

Geography For Dummies
Geography For Dummies

Author: Charles A. Heatwole

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-05-12

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 111806867X

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Geography is more than just trivia, it can help you understand why we import or export certain products, predict climate change, and even show you where to place fire and police stations when planning a city. If you’re curious about the world and want to know more about this fascinating place, Geography For Dummies is a great place to start. Whether you’re sixteen or sixty, this fun and easy guide will help you make more sense of the world you live in. Geography For Dummies gives you the tools to interpret the Earth’s grid, read and interpret maps, and to appreciate the importance and implications of geographical features such as volcanoes and fault lines. Plus, you’ll see how erosion and weathering have and will change the earth’s surface and how it impacts people. You’ll get a firm hold of everything from the physical features of the world to political divisions, population, culture, and economics. You’ll also discover: How you can have a rainforest on one side of a mountain range and a desert on the other How ocean currents help to determine the geography of climates How to choose a good location for a shopping mall How you can properly put the plant to good use in everything you do How climate affects humans and how humans have affected the climate How human population has spread and the impact it has had on our world If you’re mixed up by map symbols or mystified by Mercator projections Geography For Dummies can help you find your bearings. Filled with key insights, easy-to-read maps, and cool facts, this book will expand your understanding of geography and today’s world.

Smart Geography
Smart Geography

Author: Stoyan Nedkov

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-05

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 3030281914

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This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. It includes contributions from a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Geographical Society. In turn, the book reveals how 21st-century geography is expected to facilitate the development of human capital and the knowledge society, while also offering place-specific solutions for sustainable regional development and utilization of the planet’s natural and human capital to improve social wellbeing. This volume is intended for the global geographical research community, as well as professionals and practitioners in all fields that deal with space, including regional planners and environmental managers.

Get Outside Guide
Get Outside Guide

Author: Nancy Honovich

Publisher: National Geographic Kids

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1426315023

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"You'll explore the exciting wonders of the great outdoors in this fun and action-packed book! Get Outside Guide is filled with fascinating facts and cool ideas for adventures in forests and fields, on beaches and playgrounds, in city parks, and even in your own backyard. Identify plants, animals, constellations, and clouds. Make a telescope, a terrarium, or a solar oven. Skip rocks, look for bugs, plant a garden. It's all here for you to discover, so get outside and have fun!"--Back cover.

The New Geography of Jobs
The New Geography of Jobs

Author: Enrico Moretti

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0547750110

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Makes correlations between success and geography, explaining how such rising centers of innovation as San Francisco and Austin are likely to offer influential opportunities and shape the national and global economies in positive or detrimental ways.

Smart Spaces and Places
Smart Spaces and Places

Author: Ling Bian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1000404374

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Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society (e.g. smart energy, smart health, smart living, smart cities, smart environment, and smart society) and across geographic spaces and places. Behind these "smart" developments are a number of seminal drivers, such as social media (e.g. Twitter), sensors (drones, wearables), smartphone apps, and computing infrastructure (e.g. cloud computing). These developments have captured the enthusiasm of the public, while inevitably present unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the geographic research community. When meeting the smart challenges, are there emerging theories, methods, and observations that reveal new spatial phenomena, produce new knowledge, and foster new policies? Smart Spaces and Places addresses questions such as how to make spaces and places "smart", how the "smartness" affects the way we think spaces and places, and what role geographies play in knowledge production and decision-making in a "smart" era. The collection of 21 chapters offers stimulating discussion over the meaning of spaces, places, and smartness; scientific insights into smartness; social-political views of smartness; and policy implications of smartness. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Study Smart Junior
Study Smart Junior

Author: Chris Kensler

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780679775393

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Homework, tests, quizzes, class notes, and reports. Ugh! You may not love to study, but if you want to go places someday, there's no way around it. Study Smart Junior is the story of how young Babette learns to study better in order to realizer her dream of becoming a fashion designer for Felton Jack, a 300-pound rock mega-star with a weakness for bologna sandwiches. In the course of several exciting adventures, she and her friends learn how to: *Make a school schedule *Take better notes *Read to remember *Prioritize homework assignments *Become better at taking tests

The New York Public Library Amazing World Geography
The New York Public Library Amazing World Geography

Author: The New York Public Library

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2002-10-02

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0471431532

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Follow the Ring of Fire from New Zealand to South America. Navigate the Blue Nile and walk the Great Wall of China. Meet the first person to reach the South Pole and witness the "Green Revolution" in India. Explore the people, landscapes, and languages of our fascinating planet and uncover the answers to all your questions about world geography . . . How old is the earth? See page 8. Can volcanoes form underwater? See page 14. What are maquiladoras? See page 50. Why are rain forests so important? See page 63. Where and what are the Pillars of Hercules? See page 77. Is the Red Sea really red? See page 88. What languages are spoken in Africa? See page 112. Do any plants or animals live in Antarctica? See page 133.