Geographical reading books, ed. by F.W. Rudler, Book 3 |
Common terms and phrases
Africa Antarctic Ocean Asia Atlantic Ocean avalanches axis ball banks becomes blow breath called Cape Horn carried CHILTERN HILLS clouds cold air colder condensed continents cool countries cracks dry land earth earth's surface earthquake Europe filled formed glacier globe grow hard rocks heat Hemisphere hills INDIAN OCEAN lakes land slopes lava learnt LESSON light Lisbon live longest day look MARLBOROUGH DOWNS marsh or bog melt MENDIP HILLS mist moist moisture motion moun MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain-sides moving night North Pacific Ocean pass pieces of rock plants rain rills rise rotation round the sun rush sail sand and mud shine ships shore side sink slowly snow and ice soil Sometimes South America spinning round spring stones summer tains takes tops trees turns Uneven Coast-line valleys vapour Vesuvius volcanoes warm warmer washed WATER HEMISPHERES waves wear wind winter
Popular passages
Page 15 - ... that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening.
Page 32 - So when one part of the air is made hot and therefore light, the cold and heavy air about it pushes up the light air as the water pushes up the cork. A balloon rises in the air because the gas with which it is filled is lighter than the gases which make up the air near the ground.
Page 40 - A cloud is only a mist hanging in the air instead of resting on the ground.
Page 101 - In our voyage round the world we passed the Cape of Good Hope at the south of Africa, and Cape Horn at the south of South America. The word ' cape ' means head. Head, point, bill, and naze or ness, are names sometimes used instead of cape. * Naze ' and ' ness ' are other forms of the word
Page 5 - is sometimes called a sphere ; what else can you say of the shape of the earth?" ''The earth has. the shape of a sphere,
Page 91 - Ocean lies between Europe and Africa on one side and America on the other. The Pacific Ocean lies between Asia and America.
Page 17 - The change from day to night and from night to day is, therefore, caused by the revolution of the Earth on its axis.
Page 74 - There is nothing more useful than water; and by far the greater part of the surface of the earth is covered with it.
Page 13 - If, now, a railway line could be laid down right round the earth, it would take such a train two weeks and a half to go all round the earth and come back to the place from which it started.
Page 24 - England, the year is divided into four seasons, called spring, summer, autumn, and winter.