It's Wet Out!

by Kris Hirschmann

This book introduces how different types of precipitation form and the dangers and benefits they provide. Readers will learn how fast-moving molecules escape bodies of water through evaporation, how air rises, how the dew point affects condensation and the formation of clouds, and how cloud droplets grow and become heavy enough to fall as precipitation. Other chapters highlight raindrop shapes, hailstorms and the layers that form when hail circulates...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159928944X
• ISBN13: 9781599289441
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Checkerboard Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6