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Earth-Friendly Design: Saving Our Planet by Anne Welsbacher
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
Designers create all products???from computers and cell phones to cars and buildings???to meet the needs and desires of buyers. But did you realize that each stage in the life of a manufactured product involves processes that can damage Earth's land, air, water, and the health of living things? Earth-fr ...Show more
Earth-Friendly Energy by Ron Fridell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth (Library)
Every day we use machines that require energy. Cars and buses get energy from oil. Televisions and microwaves are powered by electricity made from coal. And furnaces rely on natural gas. Oil, coal, and natural gas are fossil fuels. Fossil fuels formed underground from plants and animals that died long a ...Show more
Earth-Friendly Waste Management by Charlotte Wilcox
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
People are throwing away more than ever before. Everything is made to be disposable???from diapers to dishes to cameras. Collecting, hauling, sorting, processing, burning, and burying this unwanted stuff can be challenging. Too much trash is harmful to our health and to the environment. And unmanaged wa ...Show more
Protecting Earth's Air Quality by Valerie Rapp
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
Every living thing on our planet needs air to survive. Most of the time, we hardly even think about Earth's air. But did you know that many of the things we use every day???from cars to electricity???hurt the quality of our air? The pollution in the air can make people, plants, and animals sick. We must ...Show more
Protecting Earth's Land by Valerie Rapp
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
Nearly all living things depend on Earth's land and its resources to survive. But did you know that people do many things that hurt the land? The damage sometimes destroys forests, which are home to diverse ecosystems and are important in producing oxygen and water. And in many parts of the world, damag ...Show more
Protecting Earth's Rain Forests by Anne Welsbacher
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
From brilliantly colored birds and wild elephants to towering trees and exotic flowers, rain forests are home to more than half of Earth's plants and animals. People living in rain forests depend on this vast array of life, and Earth itself relies on the world's rain forests to keep our climate and atmo ...Show more
Protecting Earth's Water Supply by Ron Fridell
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth (Library)
From roaring oceans to trickling streams, water covers seventy percent of our planet But did you know that less than one percent of Earth's water is usable by humans? Most water on Earth is salt water. It can't be used for drinking, bathing, or growing plants. We need freshwater. Yet about two-thirds o ...Show more
Understanding Global Warming by Rebecca L Johnson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Social studies | Series: Saving Our Living Earth
It's a fact: Earth is warming up. Scientists have learned that air pollution and other human actions are causing Earth to heat up at an alarming rate. They call this heating global warming. All over the planet, towering glaciers are melting and shrinking. Sea level is rising, threatening to put coastal ...Show more
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