The Bonkers Book of Volcano Facts: 400+ Fun Facts About Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and the Violent Machinery Under Your Feet. Earth Science for ... Book. (The Bonkers Encyclopedia of Facts) - Softcover

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The ground under your feet is not sitting still. This book has 400+ pieces of evidence.

Start with the part nobody tells you: the crust you're standing on is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple. Under it is rock hot enough to flow. Under that is an iron ball nearly as hot as the surface of the sun.

The plates on top drift about as fast as your fingernails grow, which sounds harmless until two of them stick, let go, and move an entire country. The 2011 Japan earthquake shifted the main island by eight feet and made the day shorter.

Then there's what comes out the top. A pyroclastic flow travels faster than a car on the freeway and arrives hot enough to kill everything in its path in seconds. That's what buried Pompeii in a single afternoon. When Krakatoa erupted in 1883, people heard it three thousand miles away, which is still the loudest sound anyone has ever recorded.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

• 400+ facts about volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, lava, plate tectonics, and the violent machinery under the floor
• Packed five to a page across 84 full-color comic-style pages, built to be flipped through, stared at, and read out of order
• A journey that goes down to the core and back out through the top of an eruption
• Straight answers to the big ones: what's actually under the ground, why the plates keep moving, what happened at Pompeii, and whether Yellowstone is going to do that again
• No screens required

FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS:
Written for ages 6-12 and built for the kid who'd rather look at a page than read one. Maps onto NGSS Earth's systems and natural hazards at both 2nd and 4th grade. Every fact verified. Every page illustrated. Short enough to finish, dense enough to keep coming back to.

Fair warning: you will be asked whether your house is on a fault line.

From Bonkers Press.

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