An illustrated over of what Earth was like before life took hold for young students. Topics include celestial bodies, clyclical processes, earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanic islands, soil and how it forms, tides and currents, oceanscapes and the arrival of life.
Pendragon – Book Three: The Never War First Earth. Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is a loyal friend, sports star, devoted pet owner -- and Traveler. Along with his uncle Press, Bobby has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and participated in a civil war. He's also waded through the endangered underwater territory of Cloral. Now Bobby once again finds himself thrust beyond the boundaries of time and space into a place that seems somewhat familiar: First Earth. Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral -- Spader -- have flumed to New York City, 1937.
The faraway lands of the North and South Poles are examined in this revealing guide, enabling children to explore the coldest places on Earth from the warmth of their homes.
1. The Planets Move (2000 B.C.– 500 B.C.) A thousand years of observations reveal that there are stars that move in the sky and follow patterns, showing that the Earth is part of a solar system of planets separate from the fixed stars.
2. The Earth Moves (1543) Nicolaus Copernicus places the sun, not the Earth, at the center of the solar system.
3. Planetary Orbits Are Elliptical (1605 – 1609) Johannes Kepler devises mathematical laws that successfully and accurately predict the motions of the planets in elliptical orbits
Added by: mumitroll | Karma: 30.01 | Black Hole | 10 November 2009
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SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack.
PLEASE, upload the WHOLE series, not a single episode! and a 7th in the series.....
