Earth's Ice

Earth's Ice
Some places on Earth are cold all the time. In many of these places, there is always ice & snow. High interest non-fiction for struggling readers

48 pages
Grade Readability: 3
Interest Age: 11 to 18
Lexile: 560
2019
ISBN: 9781634022729

Can you picture ice that is miles thick? What about icebergs big enough to sink ships? Some places on Earth are cold all the time. In many of these places, there is always ice and snow. Learn about ice sheets, glaciers, permafrost, and other things that make up all of Earth’s ice!

Super Science Facts entertains readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colourful images on every page that support reading comprehension. The minimal text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.

Glossary: algae, alpine glaciers, calve, continental glaciers, cryosphere, firn, glacial ice, ice caps, ice sheet, ice shelf, iceberg, moraine, non-tabular, permafrost, polar ice, satellite, sea ice, tabular

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What is the Cryosphere?

Polar Ice

Alpine Glaciers

Continental Glaciers

Icebergs

Permafrost