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Earth
Dr. Devin Dennie
Did You
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Contents
Author
Dr. Devin Dennie
Consultants
Jonathan Dale, Prof. David M. Schultz,
Prof. Richard Worden
Illustrator
Dan Crisp
DK LONDON
Editor
Kathleen Teece
Senior designer
Fiona Macdonald
US Senior editor
Shannon Beatty
US Editor
Elizabeth Searcy
Additional editing
Olivia Stanford, Katie Lawrence
Managing editor
Laura Gilbert
Managing art editor
Diane Peyton Jones
Pre-production producer
Nikoleta Parasaki
Producer
Isabell Schart
Jacket designer
Katie Knutton
Jacket editor
Francesca Young
Creative director
Helen Senior
Publishing director
Sarah Larter
DK DELHI
Editors
Anwesha Dutta, Shambhavi Thatte
Designers
Kartik Gera, Shipra Jain, Jaileen Kaur,
Nidhi Mehra, Nehal Verma, Mohd Zishan
Managing editor
Alka Thakur Hazarika
Managing art editor
Romi Chakraborty
DTP designers
Mohammad Rizwan, Dheeraj Singh
CTS manager
Balwant Singh
Production manager
Pankaj Sharma
Picture researcher
Aditya Katyal
Jacket designer
Suzena Samuel
Delhi team head
Malavika Talukder
First American Edition, 2019
Published in the United States by DK Publishing
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A WORLD OF IDEAS:
SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW
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Our planet
8–9
10–11
12–13
14–15
16–17
18–19
20–21
22–23
24–25
How did the Earth form?
How does the atmosphere
keep us safe?
Where does the sun go at night?
How is the Earth like an onion?
Why don’t things float off the Earth?
Why can’t we live on Mars?
Did the chicken or egg come first?
Does land stay still?
Did everywhere freeze in the
last ice age?
The Earth’s surface
28–29
30–31
32–33
34–35
36–37
38–39
40–41
42–43
44–45
46–47
48–49
50–51
52–53
54–55
56–57
58–59
60–61
Do mountains grow?
Are volcanic flows slow or fast?
What happens when water gets
superheated?
Is soil made of animals?
Do I contain minerals?
Which rock should I build with?
Can a cliff turn into sand?
Why do rocks form amazing shapes?
Could I become a fossil?
Can you freeze in a desert?
How does a sinkhole sink?
How do raindrops make a cave?
Do earthquakes hit the same places?
Do islands float?
How is a cactus like a camel?
Do swamp monsters exist?
Is there life on moss?
Blue planet
64–65
66–67
68–69
70–71
72–73
74–75
76–77
78–79
80–81
82–83
84–85
Why do things get carried out to sea?
Which waves can you surf?
Can we drink seawater?
Why does the Earth need the moon?
Where do rivers start?
Can a lake be bigger than a sea?
Where is the biggest waterfall?
How big are icebergs?
How is a glacier like a cheese grater?
What’s at the bottom of the ocean?
Where is the ocean’s twilight zone?
Living on the Earth
108–109
110–111
112–113
114–115
116–117
118–119
120–121
122–123
124–125
126–127
128–129
130–131
132–133
134–137
138–139
140–143
144
How many people live on the Earth?
How do countries begin?
How have we changed the Earth?
What is a city?
How do we feed everyone?
How do we find our way around?
How much plastic is in the ocean?
What is recycling?
How bad is a drought?
Is the Earth getting warmer?
How do trees help humans?
What is the future of energy?
Answers
Quiz your friends!
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
Up in the air
88–89
90–91
92–93
94–95
96–97
98–99
100–101
Is there air in space?
Why are there colors in the sky?
Why do we have seasons?
Why are places hot or cold?
Why does water fall from the sky?
Is that a dinosaur in the clouds?
Does lightning always strike the
tallest spot?
102–103
Can humans make it rain?
104–105
How does a tornado form?
Find out
why I became
extinct on page
112.
Discover which
tiny creatures are
hidden in moss on
page 60.

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