By Anita Ganeri
Age variety: nine - 12 Years.
Table of Contents
What Is a Flood? 4
Flowing Rivers 6
Flood styles 8
Flash Floods 10
Coastal Flooding 12
Tsunami Flooding 14
Human-Made Floods 16
Effects at the panorama 18
Living with Floods 20
Effects of Flooding 22
Rescue and restoration 24
Flood defense 26
Flood Prediction 28
Ten of the Deadliest Floods 30
Glossary 30
Further info 31
Index 32
Read or Download Flood! (Nature's Fury - Britannica Digital Learning) PDF
Best nature books
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
A very flexible cooking component containing an abundance of supplements, minerals, and possibly
cancer-fighting homes, mushrooms are one of the most costly and sought-after meals on the
planet. but by way of fungi, culinary makes use of are just the top of the iceberg. all through background fungus has been prized for its different properties—medicinal, ecological, even recreational—and has
spawned its personal quirky culture devoted to exploring the unusual biology and celebrating the original function it performs in the world. In Mycophilia, entire meals author and cookbook writer Eugenia Bone examines the function of fungi as unique delicacy, healing, poison, and hallucinogen, and eventually discovers larger realizing of fungi is vital to dealing with many demanding situations of the twenty first century.
Engrossing, astonishing, and filled with updated technology and cultural exploration, Mycophilia is a component narrative and half primer for foodies, technological know-how buffs, environmental advocates, and somebody drawn to studying much approximately one of many least understood and such a lot curious organisms in nature.
In cooperation with the Mauritian govt, Gerald Durrell and his group visited the island to assist rescue a few of the swiftly dwindling fauna from virtually convinced extinction. This ebook recounts their makes an attempt.
The Guide to Colorado Reptiles and Amphibians
Nature author Mary Taylor Young's most modern box advisor can help you find and research extra approximately Colorado's local reptiles and amphibians. overlaying seventy-two species of turtles, toads, salamanders, snakes, and lizards, The consultant to Colorado Reptiles and Amphibians explores herptiles via specific descriptions and informative sidebars.
Evolving Nature of the English Language: Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
This quantity provides a suite of interdisciplinary papers referring to the main thought-provoking difficulties within the components of either theoretical and utilized linguistics. The individuals concentrate on modern advancements in morphological, semantic and pragmatic theorizing. The contributions also are dedicated to a number of features of the method of educating English in addition to a few intricacies of translation.
- Bird Brains: Inside the Strange Minds of Our Fine Feathered Friends
- Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature
- The Art of Tracking, the Origin of Science
- Wild Spring Plant Foods (Foxfire Americana Library)
Extra info for Flood! (Nature's Fury - Britannica Digital Learning)
Sample text
1b–d (and Supplementary Movies 1 and 2) shows that at 0 s (no cell–cell contact) Ca2þ levels were low and both TCRb and IFNGR1 were uniformly distributed in the cell ©2004 Nature Publishing Group 527 articles membrane. Immediately after Ca2þ influx, both IFNGR1 and TCRb on the naive T cell progressively migrate to the contact interface with the dendritic cell (Fig. 1b, c). Restricted co-polarization of IFNGR and IL-2R cytokine receptors with the TCR at the immunological synapse We obtained similar results when Thp activation was induced by crosslinking of TCR at 37 8C with a secondary antibody in the absence of dendritic cells.
21. Woosley, S. E. & Weaver, T. A. The evolution and explosion of massive stars.
Guerra*, Peter M. Atkinson†, Simon I. uk †School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK ‡Public Health Group, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, PO Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya 1. Holden, C. Science 305, 639–640 (2004). 2. Whipp, B. J. & Ward, S. A. Nature 355, 25 (1992). 3. Rendell, M. ) The Olympics: Athens to Athens 1896–2004 338–340 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 2003). 4. Gilks, W. , Thomas, A. & Spiegelhalter, D. J. Statistician 43, 169–178 (1994).