Tornadoes (Dangerous Weather) [Hardcover]

Michael Allaby (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 11 and up | Grade Level: 6 and up | Series: Dangerous Weather

This is one of eight titles in this reference series covering a wide range of topics - from dinosaurs to explorers. This book on tornadoes includes photographs, facts and figures and relevant websites to explore.

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Editorial Reviews

From Kirkus Reviews

This volume in the Dangerous Weather series will discourage all but the most intrepid of budding meteorologists. Small, dense type and a difficult, specialized vocabulary combine for some college-level discourse: ``Diverging air, flowing away from an area of high pressure, or anticyclone, has negative relative vorticity and provided the divergence continues at a constant rate, its absolute vorticity decreases eventually to zero.'' A single paragraph introduces planetary vorticity, vorticity of the moving stream, relative vorticity, absolute vorticity, cyclonic motion, positive vorticity, anticyclonic, and negative vorticity. The title may act as a supplement to curriculum-planning, but it's impossible to imagine students settling into this one on their own. (b&w photos and illustrations, not seen) (Nonfiction. 14+) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 11 and up
  
• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Facts on File; Revised edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816047960
• ISBN-13: 978-0816047963
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,737,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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