Earths Cycles In Action
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This fascinating book explains the patterns and cycles created on Earth by the influence of the Sun and the Moon, as well as by the Earth’s magnetic poles and the planet’s rotation on an axis. Informative text, vivid photographs, and detailed diagrams help explain patterns such as day and night, the four seasons, the rise and fall of tides, and weather cycles.
Readers will discover that the natural element carbon is found in all living things, including people. This fascinating book explains how the Earth’s supply of carbon moves among Earth's oceans, atmosphere, ecosystem, and geosphere in a process called the carbon cycle. Detailed diagrams and an experiment help explain photosynthesis, respiration, and how human activities can disrupt the cycle's balance.
Nitrogen is a substance that is essential for all life on earth. This informative book explains how the Earth’s supply of nitrogen moves in different forms in a cycle from the air to the soil to living things. Detailed diagrams and an experiment help explain such processes as fixation, nitrification, and dentrification, as well as the ways in which human activities can interfere with the nitrogen cycle.
Essential to life, water can be found in different states, or forms, all around us. This important book explains how the Earth’s supply of water moves from bodies of water, to the atmosphere, and to land in a process called the water cycle. Informative text, detailed diagrams, and an experiment help explain transpiration, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, as well as the ways in which human activities interfere with the water cycle.