Murton: Earth Science 11 - Natural Disasters

The Usborne Understanding Geography series presents the principles of physical geography and the latest scientific research in an exciting and accessible way. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are some of the world's most spectacular natural phenomena.

Earth Science: An Illustrated Guide to contains six sections, a comprehensive glossary, a Web site guide, and an index. Full-colour diagrams, graphs, charts, and maps on every page illustrate the essential elements of the subject, while parallel text provides key definitions and step-by-step explanations. The six sections include: Earth and Space, Earth’s History, Earth's Rocks, Air and Oceans, Shaping the Surface and Comparisons.

This work provides scholarly accounts of all major storm systems ever recorded. For many of the storms described, the author provides maps of their course, detailed chronologies of their progress, photographs of their aftermath, and comments about them from first-hand observers.

This volume provides explanations of key concepts in earth science, physics, biology, chemistry, and mathematics, along with tables of chemical elements.

Learn about our world, the universe, and groundbreaking discoveries in The Science Book. Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with illustrations and graphics throughout.

Weather and Climate: An Illustrated Guide contains nine sections. The nine sections include: ""The Atmospheric Engine"" - outlines the overall structure of Earth's atmosphere, its composition, and the global processes that drive its patterns of circulation; ""Components of Weather"" - looks in detail at all the major weather phenomena, from winds to fog, rain to snow; ""Weather Systems"" - provides an overview of the formation, movement, and interaction of large air masses and shows how these determine the local weather; ""Extremes of Weather"" - looks at the range of weather phenomena across the globe, giving examples of the regions that experience extremes. Simultaneously energetic and destructive weather phenomena such as tornadoes and hurricanes are also covered in this section; ""Meteorology"" - concerns the science of observing, recording, and predicting weather and climate; ""Climate and Seasons"" - provides an overview of the major climate types and describes the crucial factors that determine climate at a particular location. ""World Climate Data"" - gives the average monthly temperatures, rainfall, and sunshine data of 83 representative cities around the worldand, ""Human Impact on Climate"" - examines the evidence for the claims that human activity is changing Earth's climate. It also outlines the likely outcome of such changes.