Maps show you all kinds of things about the earth and space. The kind of map you probably know best is a road map. This kind of map shows roads, cities, rivers, and important places. You use road...
Where the sea pokes into the land
A bay is a place where a tiny bit of the sea, or a lake, pokes into the land. Seen from an airplane, a bay often looks as if a giant had taken a big bite out of the edge of the land and water had...
Lands of ice
Two parts of the earth are bitter cold all year round. These places are the "top" and the "bottom" of the earth---the North Pole and South Pole. The land around the South Pole is called Antarctica....
Land in the water
Explosion after explosion of hot rock and ash spurted from the ocean. A thick cloud of steam rose high into the air. Slowly, for many days, a long mound of dark lava rose up out of the water. An...
Open country
All over the earth there are great flat places. The level or gently rolling land goes on for miles (kilometers). These flat parts of the earth are called plains. Most plains are lower than the land...
The lowest place in the world
> Canyon de Chelly, Arizona > Dead Sea, between Jordan and Israel If the highest part of the land is a mountaintop, where do you think the lowest place must be? That's right---in a valley. The...
The highest place in the world
Where do you think the highest place in the world is? As you may have guessed, the highest place in the world is the top of a mountain. It is the top of Mount Everest, which stands between the...
The outside of the earth
We live on the surface of the earth. The surface, or crust of the earth, is made of rock. In some places, it is covered with soil. In many places, it is covered with water. All around it is air. ...
An island in space
We live on an island. An island in space! An island is a piece of land with water all around it. The earth is a giant ball of rock and metal with space all around it. A ball of rock and metal such...
I Strike the Jolly Roger
From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island is one of the best adventure tales ever written. The story, which takes place in the 1700's, is told by young Jim Hawkins. After Jim...
