How Mountains are Made

Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld Series: Lets-read-and-find-out Science Stage 2

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Thoroughly describes plate tectonic theory and how the forces of nature shape our world.

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Summary

Thoroughly describes plate tectonic theory and how the forces of nature shape our world.

Description

A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. This classic picture book explores how mountains are made-including how Mount Everest grew from a flat plain under an ocean to become 29,028 feet tall!

Now rebranded with a new cover look, this book features simple activities and fascinating cross-sections of the earth's moving crust that clearly explain plate tectonics. Both text and artwork were vetted for accuracy by an expert in the field.

This is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science title, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and supports the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

About the Author

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is the award-winning author of more than sixty books, including "Dinosaur Tracks", "a great choice for even the most discriminating dinophiles" ("School Library Journal"); "Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?", a Children's Book of the Month Club selection described as "fascinating" by "Kirkus Reviews"; and "Dinosaurs Big and Small", a 2003 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award winner. When she's not reading, researching, writing, or editing, Kathleen loves to spend her free time exploring, doing fieldwork, and preparing fossils in the laboratory for her local natural his

Back Cover

29,028 feet tall and still growing?! Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains.