Places in the world

Genre

Nonfiction

Comprehension Skill

Predict

Text Features

• Captions
• Labels
• Glossary

Science Content

Weather

Scott Foresman Science 1.7

ISBN 0-328-13753-7

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Vocabulary

Extended Vocabulary

clouds
season

sleet
temperature
thermometer
water vapor
weather

beaches
hooves
peaks
polar
tropical

What did you learn?
1. What are some changes that
happen in places where seasons
change?
2. How is a tropical place like a
desert place? How is it different?
by Arlene Block
Polar places
3.
have fewer living things than
other kinds of places. Write to
explain why this is true. Use words
from the book as you write.
4.

Picture Credits
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material.
The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.

Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd).
2 Getty Images; 4 (B) Dale C. Spartas/Corbis; 9 (T) Lanz Von Horsten; Gallo Images/Corbis;
14 (BL) Dale C. Spartas/Corbis, (BR) Lanz Von Horsten; Gallo Images/Corbis.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.

ISBN: 0-328-13753-7
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any
prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to
Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.
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Predict Suppose you are in a
mountain place. What will you see
on mountain peaks?


What You Already Know
Weather is what it is like outside. Weather
changes from day to day. It can be hot or cold.
It can be wet or dry. The wind can blow. There
can be clouds. The Sun can shine. Weather
can be measured with tools. A thermometer is
a weather tool. It measures the temperature.
It tells how hot or cold something is.
Different clouds bring different kinds of
weather. Water vapor is a kind of water in the
air. Clouds form when water vapor cools. Rain,
sleet, and snow are kinds of wet weather.

Seasons are times of the year. Seasons
happen in a pattern. Weather changes during
the year. In some places weather changes a
lot during the seasons.
What if you are going
on a trip? Should you
pack a T-shirt or a warm
coat? In this book you
will find out what it is
like in different places
in the world.

Wear warm clothes if
you visit somewhere snowy.

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Changing Seasons
Some places are always hot. Some places are
always cold. Some places have temperatures
that change. They have four different seasons.
It is cold and snowy in winter. It is warm in
spring. It is hot in summer. It is cool in fall.

Many plants can live with season changes.
Some trees change with the seasons. Their

leaves turn colors in the fall. Then the leaves
drop. New leaves grow in the spring.
Animals can live with the season changes
too. Squirrels store food when it is warm.
Then they are ready for the winter.

Squirrel

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Mountain Places
In places with mountains the air stays cool
most of the year. The temperature can be very
cold on mountaintops. Some of the peaks, or
tops, have snow and ice all year. It is too cold
for trees or plants to grow there. It is not as
cold at the bottom. Plants and trees grow near
the bottoms of mountains.

The body parts of some
animals help them live
on mountains. Mountain
goats live on mountains.
They have hooves (huvz).
Their hooves help them
climb and jump from rock
to rock. Their thick fur

coats keep them warm.

Many people like to ski
on snowy mountains.

Mountain goat

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Desert Places
You will not get wet in a desert. Deserts are
very dry. They do not get much rain. The Sun
shines on most days. The temperature can be
very hot. There are not many clouds.
The temperature drops at night. It gets
much colder.

Many plants and animals
live in deserts. The scorpion
sleeps under a rock in the
day. It is cool and shady
under the rock. At night the
scorpion comes out to look
for food.
Desert plants do not need
much water. Many different Cactus plants
cactus plants live in deserts.

They can store water for a long time.

Scorpion
Strong winds blow sand
into piles called dunes.

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Tropical Places
Leave your warm coat at home if you go
to a tropical place! The air there stays warm
all year. It is warm in the day and at night.
Tropical places are the warmest places in
the world. There is a lot of rain. Most rain
forests and some beaches are tropical places.

Different plants and
animals live in rain forests.
Many plants grow well where
it is warm and wet. These
plants are food for many
kinds of animals. Some
animals, such as chameleons,
live in the trees. Other
animals live on the ground.

Many people enjoy

tropical beaches.

Chameleon

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Polar Places
What are the coldest places on Earth?
Polar places! It is very cold in these places
most of the year. Snow and ice cover the
ground. Huge blocks of ice float in the
water. Very little sun shines in the
winter.
It is hard for living things to
be where it is so cold. Not many
people live in polar places.

People in polar places
need to wear clothes that
keep them warm. Only a few
plants can grow.
Some animals live in polar
places. Penguins live in polar
places all year. Their fat helps
keep them warm. They also
have thick coats of feathers.

Penguins live in
polar places.

Some people live in polar places all year.

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Many Places
It is different in different places in the
world. There are four different seasons in
some places. Mountain places are cool most of
the year. Deserts are dry. Tropical places are
hot and wet all year.
Changing seasons

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Mountain

Desert

Polar places are the coldest places on
Earth. They are cold and icy all year long.
Different places have different plants and
animals. Some animals have special body
parts that help them where they live.
People live in different places too.

What is it like where you live?
Tropical

Polar

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Vocabulary

Glossary
clouds

Extended Vocabulary

beaches
hooves
season
peaks
sleet
beaches
sandy land
next to water
polar
temperature
tropical
thermometer
hooves
hard parts
on the feet of

water vaporsome animals
weather
peaks

the pointed tops of mountains

polar

very cold

tropical

hot and wet

Picture Credits
Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material.
The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd).
2 Getty Images; 4 (B) Dale C. Spartas/Corbis; 9 (T) Lanz Von Horsten; Gallo Images/Corbis;
14 (BL) Dale C. Spartas/Corbis, (BR) Lanz Von Horsten; Gallo Images/Corbis.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.

ISBN: 0-328-13753-7
Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America.
This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any
prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to
Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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What did you learn?
1. What are some changes that
happen in places where seasons
change?
2. How is a tropical place like a
desert place? How is it different?
3.

Polar places
have fewer living things than
other kinds of places. Write to
explain why this is true. Use words
from the book as you write.

4.

Predict Suppose you are in a
mountain place. What will you see
on mountain peaks?