Geography Starts Here
1 primary work • 7 total works
Book 10
Weather Around You Dup Film Sweden
by Rudi Visi, Angela Royston, and Peter Bull
Published 28 July 2000
Presents basic information about the weather, the different forms it takes, and its effect on our lives.
Discover different types of maps and learn how to use them. Find out how to draw a plan view of your bedroom, how the heights of mountains are measured and whether map symbols are the same all over the world. This book introduces basic geographical terms.
Explores the reasons why people live in various geographical regions and how they survive, discussing towns, cities, and dwellings in mountains or next to water.
An introduction to maps, what they represent, how they are constructed, and how to read them.
Discover all about the different kinds of weather. Find out where in the world it rains for 350 days a year, what is the biggest hailstone ever recorded and how fast a flash of lightning travels.
Read about all kinds of settlements around the world. Find out where in the world people live in mud huts or in boats, which is the biggest city in the world and how people travel from place to place. This title looks at differences between villages and cities, how trade affects where people choose to live, and how and why settlements grow. It also provides useful facts and figures about where people live.