Read about the different ways in which you depend on water. See the many places where you can find water on Earth. Learn how you can protect Earth's water.-- Publisher's note.

Earth's Water is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.7 and Literacy.L.1.1. Students will learn about our water sources, how rain and snow occur, and the value of water to Life on Earth. This book should be paired with “Water on Earth" (9781448890347) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

Essential to life, water can be found in different forms all around us. This important book explains how the Earth's supply of water moves from bodies of water, to the atmosphere, and to land in a process called the water cycle . Accessible text and detailed images help explain such processes as transpiration, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, as well as the important roles of sunlight and gravity in the water cycle. Feature boxes highlight examples of the ways in which human activity creates shortages of clean water and interferes with the water cycle. Readers are encouraged to find ways to take action and find solutions.

From lakes, to clouds, to rain that falls back to Earth—discover how water changes through various processes to form the water cycle.

From roaring oceans to trickling streams, water covers seventy percent of our planet! But did you know that less than one percent of Earth’s water is usable by humans? Most water on Earth is salt water. It can’t be used for drinking, bathing, or growing plants. We need freshwater. Yet about two-thirds of Earth’s freshwater is frozen solid at the North and South Poles. And the water we can access—from lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, or underground sources—is in danger of being polluted. There is not enough water to waste. We must join together in the quest to protect this valuable resource. With engaging text and eye-catching images—plus a special Going Green section—this book tells you all about Earth’s water and what you can do to protect it.

Text and photographs describe bodies of water, such as oceans, lakes, and rivers, as well as land forms such as mountains, island, valleys and plains.

Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers - earth's crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air's thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundations, the roof shields from water, the openings control the flow of air, and the walls protect from the gleaming sun.