Natural Disasters (DK Eyewitness Books)

✍ Scribed by Claire Watts, Trevor Day

• Publisher: DK CHILDREN
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 76
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Witness the amazing power of hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters with this all-new addition to the Eyewitness series.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 7
Dynamic planet
......Page 8
Restless Earth......Page 10
What is a tsunami?
......Page 12
Wave power
......Page 14
Walls of water
......Page 16
A drowned world
......Page 18
Recovery begins
......Page 20
Tsunami warnings
......Page 22
Earth shakes
......Page 24
Surviving a quake
......Page 26
Mighty volcanoes
......Page 28
Rivers of fire
......Page 30
Landslides and avalanches
......Page 32
Earth's atmosphere
......Page 34
Wild weather
......Page 36
Hurricane force
......Page 38
Battling the wind
......Page 40
Hurricane Katrina
......Page 42
Twisting tornadoes
......Page 44
Flood alert
......Page 46
Raging waters
......Page 48
Drought and famine
......Page 50
Wildfire
......Page 52
Fighting fires
......Page 54
Climate change
......Page 56
Unnatural disasters
......Page 58
Infectious diseases
......Page 60
Epidemic
......Page 62
Future disasters
......Page 64
Did you know?......Page 66
Timeline
......Page 68
Find out more
......Page 71
Glossary
......Page 72
Acknowledgments
......Page 74

✦ Subjects

Библиотека;Литература для детей и родителей;Развивающая литература;Формирование представлений об окружающем мире;Формирование географических представлений;