Contents

Contents : History of earth - history of life, fossils; inside earth - earth’s structure, soil, rocks, minerals & precious stones, metals and fossil fuels; breathtaking landscapes - climatic zones, erosion, water, mountains, caves, glaciers; earth’s fits of anger - tectonic plates, volcanic eruptions, volcanism, volcanic landscapes, earthquakes, landslides, drought and flooding; the environment - biosphere & ecosystems, climate change and global warming, deforestation and desertification, sources of pollution; facts; cartography and terrestrial coordinates; activities; glossary; index;