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قراءة كتاب Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place
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Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place
Pike's Peak, ColoradoEARTH AND SKY EVERY
CHILD SHOULD KNOW
EASY STUDIES OF THE EARTH AND THE
STARS FOR ANY TIME AND PLACE
BY
JULIA ELLEN ROGERS
AUTHOR OF
"THE TREE BOOK," "THE SHELL BOOK," "KEY TO THE NATURE
LIBRARY," "TREES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW."
ILLUSTRATED BY
THIRTY-ONE PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, OCTOBER, 1910
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A number of the photographs in this volume are used by permission of the American Museum of Natural History. The star maps and drawings of the constellations are by Mrs. Jerome B. Thomas. The poem by Longfellow, quoted in part, is with the permission of the publishers, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
CONTENTS
| PART I. THE EARTH | |
| PAGE | |
| The Great Stone Book | 3 |
| The Fossil Fish | 6 |
| The Crust of the Earth | 9 |
| What Is the Earth Made of? | 14 |
| The First Dry Land | 22 |
| A Study of Granite | 27 |
| Metamorphic Rocks | 31 |
| The Air in Motion | 35 |
| The Work of the Wind | 44 |
| Rain in Summer, by Henry W. Longfellow | 50 |
| What Becomes of the Rain? | 51 |
| The Soil in Fields and Gardens | 58 |
| The Work of Earthworms | 63 |
| Quiet Forces That Destroy Rocks | 68 |
| How Rocks Are Made | 72 |
| Getting Acquainted With a River | 78 |
| The Ways of Rivers | 84 |
| The Story of a Pond | 90 |
| The Riddle of the Lost Rocks | 93 |
| The Question Answered | 96 |
| Glaciers Among the Alps | 98 |
| The Great Ice Sheet | 104 |
| Following Some Lost Rivers | 110 |