Thing explainer : complicated stuff in simple words

9780544668256

61 pages (2 folded), 1 unnumbered folded page : colour illustrations ; 34 cm

Page before the book starts : introduction
Shared space house : International Space Station
Tiny bags of water you're made of : animal cell
Heavy metal power building : nuclear reactor
Red world space car : Curiosity Rover
Bags of stuff inside you : human torso
Boxes that make clothes smell better : washing machine and dryer
Earth's surface : physical map of the earth
Under a car's front cover : car engine
Sky boat with turning wings : helicopter
The US's laws of the land : US Constitution
The US's Laws of the Land : USS Constitution
Food-heating radio box : microwave
Shape checker : padlock
Lifting room : elevator
Boat that goes under the sea : submarine
Box that cleans food holders : dishwasher
Big flat rocks we live on : tectonic plates
Cloud maps : weather maps
Tree : tree
Machine for burning cities : nuclear bomb
Water room : toilet and sink
Computer building : data center
US Space Team's Up Goer Five : Saturn V rocket
Sky boat pusher : jet engine
Stuff you touch to fly a sky boat : cockpit
Big tiny thing hitter : large Hadron Collider
Power boxes : batteries
Hole-making city boat : oil rig
Stuff in the earth we can burn : mines
Tall roads : bridges
Bending computer : laptop
Worlds around the sun : solar system
Picture taker : camera
Writing sticks : pen and pencil
Hand computer : smart phone
Colors of light : electromagnetic spectrum
The sky at night : night sky
The pieces everything is made of : periodic table
Our star : sun
How to count things : units of measurement
Room for helping people : hospital bed
Playing fields : athletic fields
Earth's past : geologic periods of earth
Tree of life : life's family tree
The ten hundred words people use the most : the ten hundred most common words in our language
Sky toucher : skyscraper

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