The Visual Guides series answers the most important questions on topics that fascinate everyone through a series of videos and animations: weather, the human body, the Earth, the universe and plants. It provides images of natural phenomena and explanations of fundamental concepts, and features the very latest discoveries in these areas.

Table of Contents

• THE HISTORY OF EARTH
• The formation of Earth
• The geologic time scale
• Our knowledge of geologic time
• THE STRUCTURE OF EARTH
• Inside Earth
• Geomagnetism
• Minerals
• Mineral shapes
• Rocks
• TECTONICS AND VOLCANISM
• Tectonic Plates
• Continental drift
• Volcanoes
• Volcanism
• Geysers
• Earthquakes
• WATER AND THE OCEANS
• Watercourses
• The seas and oceans
• The ocean floor
• Ocean currents
• Waves
• Tsunamis
• The tides
• THE EVOLUTION OF LANDSCAPES
• Erosion
• Caves
• How mountains are formed
• Mountains
• Littorals
• Glaciers
• THE REPRESENTATION OF EARTH
• Terrestrial co-ordinates
• Cartographic projection
• Cartography
• Cartographic conventions
• Physical and topographic maps
• Thematic maps
• Remote sensing
• Time zones
• THE CONTINENTS
• Antarctica
• North America
• South America
• Europe
• Asia
• Oceania
• Africa