Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies, biographies, glossary entries, and charts, measurements, and formulas, students, teachers, and general readers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently askedscience questions. Among the topics covered are: acid rain, air pollution, Antarctic Circle, archoen eon, asteroids, barrier reefs, common rocks. Biographies include: Aristotle, Nicolas Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Rene Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Huble, Sir Isaac Newton, Ptomely, Carl Sagan, Leonardo da Vinci. Tables, charts, and diagrams include: Beaufort wind scale, cloud chart, comparative oceans chart, dinosaur classification, geologic table, Ice Ages, major hurricanes, periodic table. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Facts on File Earth Science Handbook (The Facts on File Science Handbooks) (Diagram Group)