Weather, Climate & Seasons, Meteorology & Atmospheric Science - Climate & Climatology
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Overview
A look at the four major climate zones of the world, with clear explanations of the habitats, places, and people who live in these parts of the world. Each book is further broken down into specific "kinds" of land and deals with the species of plants and animals who live there. Environmental awareness is raised with a section in each book that deals with past and present destruction and what steps are being taken to remedy the situation.Describes the weather, plant and animal life, and how people live in temperate regions around the world.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 4-6Visually attractive packages with easy-to-read print, abundant full-color photographs, and serious flaws. Each topic is presented in a double-page spread providing readers with explanations of weather patterns, ocean currents, plant and animal desert life, and how our environment is changing. Dry Climates details the differences between arid and semiarid regions and includes a description of the North American prairie. At least one of the graphs is labeled incorrectly, mixing up temperature and precipitation, leaving readers mighty puzzled. Two photographs have the wrong captions. These errors severely impair the book's effectiveness for young fact-finders. All three titles have an even more fundamental problem: these surveys of the world's climates are chock-full of geographical references and yet all rely on the same outline map of the world that does not identify the continents, much less the countries and regions under discussion. Students will be better served by Miranda MacQuitty's Desert (Knopf, 1994) and Sheri Amsel's Deserts (Raintree/Steck-Vaughn, 1992).Jane Claes, T. J. Lee Elementary School, Irving, TXBook Details
Published
January 1, 1997
Publisher
Raintree
Pages
48
Format
Binding
ISBN
9780817248277