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What's Under Your Feet?: A Curious Kid's Journey Straight Down Through Roots, Burrows, Pipes, Fossils, Caves and Magma to the Centre of the Earth Full
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.26 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Under your shoes there is grass, or carpet, or pavement. And under that, going down and down and down, is one of the strangest places in the world - and almost nobody ever visits it.
There are worms ploughing the soil. Ant cities with nurseries and rubbish rooms. Pipes carrying away everything you flush. Bones of animals that died before there were people. Caves so big a jungle grows inside them. Crystals longer than a bus. And, far below all of it, a ball of iron hotter than the surface of the Sun.
This book is a journey straight down. Not a pile of random facts - a single continuous descent. Each of the seven chapters takes you deeper than the last, until the final page leaves you at the centre of the Earth, 6,371 kilometres below where you started.
The seven depths- 1. The Living Carpet - the first few centimetres: worms, roots, fungi, and one handful of soil holding more living things than there are people on the planet
- 2. The Burrow Floor - down to two metres: moles, rabbit warrens, prairie dog towns and ant nests with their own air conditioning
- 3. The Buried World - just below the pavement: water pipes, sewers, cables, and the tunnels trains run through
- 4. The Bone Layer - metres to hundreds of metres: dinosaurs, mammoths in frozen ground, insects in amber, and buried treasure
- 5. The Water Below - hidden rivers, caverns the size of villages, blind cave fish and caves made of ice
- 6. The Rock Kingdom - deeper than any hole ever dug: giant crystals, gold, fault lines, and the deepest borehole humans have managed
- 7. Down to the Fire - magma, the metal core, and why a compass points north
- 100 real questions, properly answered. Why worms come out when it rains. What a mushroom really is. How deep the deepest cave goes. Whether you could dig all the way through the Earth. Written to satisfy a curious six-year-old without embarrassing a geologist.
- Answers you can trust. Simplified, never wrong - and where nobody has actually been down there to look, the book says so.
- Full colour on every single page. A clear, friendly illustration for all 100 questions, plus an opener for each chapter. No black-and-white filler.
- It has momentum. Because the book descends instead of jumping about, children want to know what is under the page they just read.
- A Wow! fact on every page - the bit your child will repeat to everyone they meet. (Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying worms. A tardigrade can survive open space. There is a fungus in Oregon covering nine square kilometres.)
Written for curious children aged 6 to 10: early and middle elementary readers, homeschool science shelves, and birthday or holiday gifts for the child who digs holes in the garden to see how far down they go.
One hundred questions, seven depths, and 6,371 kilometres straight down. Grab a torch.
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