From Lake Tahoe to the Hoover Dam, there's lots to see and do in Nevada! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make Nevada special. A table of contents, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, and an index support readers and extend learning.

From searching for wildlife in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to watching NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway, there's lots to see and do in North Carolina! Additional features include maps on each spread, state symbols, famous people, fact bubbles, and informative captions that highlight some of the things that make North Carolina special. A table of contents, sources for further research, a phonetic glossary, and an index support readers...

Maps, photographs, illustrations, and text present information about the regions and states of the United States.

Presents an interactive trivia book from author and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings that contains facts about maps and geography. Also features illustrations, quizzes, games, sidebars, tables, and a recipe.

Meet Stevie the Kiwi, an adventurous creature who will take students on a whirlwind trip to compare and contrast the human geography and landscapes of Australia and New Zealand. The Miniclip includes concepts such as geographical mapping, population, and natural and built environments.

Visiting the site of the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Stefan Gates finds people living on toxic land. His journey takes him right up to the crumbling sarcophagus itself, and when a woman prepares a meal from produce grown in her garden,Gates is faced with a tricky dilemma.

North America is perpetually reinventing itself. The continent is also a wild world of rivers, plains and ice, where iridescent-colored deserts lie alongside luxuriant valleys and mountains holding many a secret. From the Far North to the Deserts of Utah, from the Rockies to Death Valley, the sites it features are on the scale of the continent itself. A Far North among the Earth's oldest; "Great Plains" born from the sea; a vast mountain in the middle...

When Homo sapiens arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between the First Australians and modern-day Aborigines. The ancient and modern story intersect here as nowhere else in the world. The secret to this continuity is diversity. Intuitively, they found the right balance between being...

Simple text and full-color photos explain how caves form and why they are an important landform.