Bibliograph

Poles apart, Elaine Scott

Type

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Poles apart, Elaine Scott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references, Web sites (page [64]) and index

Index

index present

Intended audience

For ages 10 up

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Poles apart

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55738263

Responsibility statement

Elaine Scott

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 7.4, 2.0, 84616.

Summary

Using a wide range of disciplines from physics to geography to biology, explores some of the unique properties shared by the two ends of the Earth's axis, and other ways in which they are poles apart

Table Of Contents

Drifting apart : Gondwanaland and Eurasia -- Poles apart : summer and winter -- Mutual attraction : the magnetic poles -- The people : Inuit and None -- Never neighbors : penguins in the south -- Never neighbors : polar bears in the north -- Great races : first to see them -- Great races : first to claim them -- The poles today : lessons from the ice

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