This title offers a hands-on approach to helping children to explore, learn and understand about the world around them. Containing a range of safe, easy-to-do experiments, it aims to stimulate children's curiousity and challenge them to find out more through their own observations and discoveries. The book offers an all-round introductio to geography, looking at the way that mountains, rivers and oceans shape the land, and explaining the causes behind natural hazards such as volcanoes and earthquakes. Climates and weather patterns from around the world are also explored and children are encouraged to learn how to use and understand all types of map.