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The Little Encyclopedia of Our World** (THE WORLD AROUND US (Mountains…
The Little Encyclopedia of Our World**
Kingfisher
2002
The USA
THE UNIVERSE
The Universe
exist
enormous
is known
no one
how big it is
where
begin
end
part of the Universe
everything
Billions of stars
balls
huge
burning gases
born
all the time
from clouds of dust and gas
old star
fade
cold
supernova
death of a giant star
a huge explosion
beams of light
black hole
Galaxies
gigantic group of stars
billions of stars
the Milky Way
The Sun
The Earth
The Moon
the size
one-fourth
the Earth
giant spiral of stars
three main types
Spiral galaxy
Egg-shaped galaxy
Irregular-shaped galaxy
Night Sky
constellations
full of stars
patterns
Long ago
people
name
to recognize them
different
part of the world
the southern
the nothern
Moving stars
shooting stars
Meteors
space dust
comet
a huge star
tail
many millions of miles long
lumps of
ice
rock
The Solar System
a family of planets
spinning
around the Sun
moons
comets
other chunks of rock
nine planets
made of
rock
liquid
metal
gas
The Earth
we live
water
air
plants
animals
24 hours
to spin once
seasons
spring
summer
autumn
winter
Close to the Sun
the Mercury
the Venus
NO
water
life
plants
animals
too
close
hot
The Mars
the fourth planet
like the Earth
colder
farther from the Sun
24 hours
seasons
summer
winter
two moons
Phobos
Deimos
The giant planets
The Jupiter
the largest planet
in the Solar System
16 moons
The Saturn
18 moons
Icy rings
both of them
enormous gas planets
are circled
by
rings
moons
Distant planets
The Uranus
four times bigger
than the Earth
15 moons
11 rings
The Neptune
a bluish color
8 moons
Triton
its largest moon
the coldest object
in the Solar System
The Pluto
the smallest planet
1 moon
Charon
the edge of the Solar System
The Sun
a star
enormous ball
burning gases
mainly of a gas
hydrogen
bigger than
the Earth
millions of times
give
heat
lights
without the Sun
the Earth
cold
dark
lifeless
Close to the Sun
the Mercury
the Venus
NO
water
life
plants
animals
too close
too hot
Space discovery
Astronauts
study
the planets
moons
Find out more about the Universe
spacecraft
space probes
unmanned
explore
the Solar System
take
photographs
thousands
THE WORLD AROUND US
Earthquakes
the crust
the top layer of the Earth
a giant jigsaw puzzle
the ground shake
sometimes
move
crusts
plates
tsunami
the giant waves
Mountains
the highest
no tree
the tree line
snow
all year
rocky
jagged
deep valleys
plants
close to the ground
wind does not damage them
animals
thick fur
Weather
change
from
day to day
season to season
sunny
cloudy
rainy
windy
Water cycle
The living things adapt to where they live.
Prehistoric Life
Evolution
the way that living things change
most of the animals
living today
didn't exist
in the past
lived in the past
no longer exist
today
the first plants and animals
tiny
in the sea
nowadays
all sorts of living things
on
every part of the planet
the Earth
millions of years
change
slowly
all the time
the living things
the plants
the animals
years ago
500 million
the sea
fish
tiny
first
395 million
the land
the amphibians
moved onto
240 million
Dinosaurs
Reptiles
to 64 million
After the dinosaurs died out
mammals
2 million
the first humans