People Who Study the World and Space

Cave scientists

Watch your head—there’s a stalactite! Oops, don’t trip over the stalagmite! Where are you? In a cave! Scientists who study caves are called speleologists. Most caves are dark, slippery tunnels of…

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Mountains, Valleys, and Plains

Icy bulldozers

glacier, Chile Some of the snow on a high mountaintop melts and runs off. But much of it stays all year round. The snow that stays becomes hard and grainy, like salt. As new snow falls each year,…

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The Green Kingdom

Cossack asparagus

Cattails grow in marshes, on riverbanks, and near water-filled ditches. Their flowers become fuzzy, brown rods that look and feel like the tip of a cat’s tail. Cattail roots are good to eat. The…

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