How Mountains Are Made by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, James Graham Hale (Illustrator)
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- Age Range: 5 to 8
- Pub. Date: May 1995
- 32pp
- Sales Rank: 53,560
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Product Details
- Series: Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2 Series
- ISBN-13: 9780064451284
- ISBN: 0064451283
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains.
Children's Literature
This book explains a big subject to little people. A group of kids hikes up a mountain and discover an ocean fossil. In learning why a fossil was on the mountain, they also learn about the four different types of mountains: folded, dome, fault-block, and volcanic. The kids discover that mountains are hardly static: some are shrinking, through the long-term effects of rain, wind and ice, while others are growing. Mt. Everest may be rising as much as 2 inches a year. This is a nice presentation of the complex geologic workings of our planet and gives kids manageable ways to think about the vast piles of rock that we call mountains. "Let's-Read-&-Find-Out Science" series-Stage 2.
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Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld's books include Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?, Terrible Tyrannosaurs, and Dinosaur Babies, which School Library Journal said "will be welcomed with deserved delight by young dinophiles." She has also written Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young, an ALA Notable Book. Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld lives in Berkeley, California.
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May 03, 2008: The model of the Earth's interior illustrated and described in this book is wrong and leads to numerous other conceptual errors throughout the book. The book claims that there is a molten magma layer beneath the upper 95 mile thick lithosphere of the Earth. This is false. The layer of the Earth beneath the lithosphere is the asthenosphere, which is a solid that flows on very long time scales - it is not a liquid magma. In addition to other misleading and inaccurate statements throughout the text, the illustrations are sure to create misconceptions among children. For example, one illustration shows a volcano at Earth's surface that is directly fed by the misinterpreted magma layer deep beneath the Earth's lithosphere, and leads one to believe that when the entire 95-mile thick lithosphere cracks, liquid magma suddenly shoots up from below. A quick comparison between the model of the Earth presented in this book and that presented in modern geology textbooks, or Wikipedia for that matter, will hopefully convice existing owners of this book that it is deeply flawed.
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