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Index

acceleration, 9 Galileo, 28, 30 Röntgen, Wilhelm, 30
animals, 19, 21 genes, 23
Archimedes, 28, 30 gravity, 31 scientific method, 7
atoms, 11 scientists, 6–7
habitats, 20–21 slow light, 30
biomes, 20–21 human body, 24–25 solar system, 13
body systems, 24–25 stars, 12–13
brain, 26–27 insulin production, 23 sun, 12–13

cells, 18–19, 25 life on Earth, 18–19 tectonic plates, 16–17
Copernicus, 28 theories, 6–7
matter, 10–11 tides, 15
disease, 25 memory, 27
DNA, 22 molecules, 10–11 volcanoes, 16
moon, 13
Earth, 12–13, 16–17 movement, 8–9 water pressure, 15
earthquakes, 17 waves, 14
ecosystems, 21 Newton, Isaac, 29, 31 weather stations, 17
Einstein, Albert, 29
elements, 11 oceans, 14–15 X-rays, 25, 30
energy, 9
pendulums, 30
forces, 8 plants, 18–19

The Author Picture Credits
John Farndon is Royal Literary Fellow at City & Guilds in t = top, m = middle, b = bottom,
London, UK, and the author of a huge number of books l = left, r = right.
for adults and children on science, technology, and history, Shutterstock: 11tl; 11tr; Anatomy
including such international best-sellers as Do Not Open and Insider 25br; Anna_Pushkareva
7tr; AntonSokolov 12br; Bo1982
Do You Think You’re Clever? He has been shortlisted six times 6ml; chromatos 29br; Digital
for the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize, for titles Storm 9tl; Dragon Images 23tl;
such as How the Earth Works and What Happens When? dmitry mokshin 29tl; Eugene
Ivanov 28mr; Everett Historical
The Illustrator 6bl, 28bl, 29m; Georgios Kollidas
29tr; goodluz 6mr; Gorodenkoff
Self-taught comic artist Joe Matthews drew Ivy The Terrible, 7ml; halitomer 28tl; LightField
Ball Boy, and Billy Whizz stories for the Beano before moving Studios 11br; Michelangelus 28tr;
on to Tom and Jerry and Baby Looney Tunes comics. He also Morphart Creation 29mr; niall
dunne 19ml; Olga Popova 28ml;
worked as a storyboard artist on the BBC TV series Bob the Ondrej Prosicky 21mr; Panos Karas
Builder. Joe has produced his own Funny Monsters Comic 7br; Pictureguy 17br; Sarun T 15br;
and in 2016 published his comic-strip version of the Charles spatuletail 29bl; YANGCHAO 28br.
Dickens favorite, A Christmas Carol. Joe lives in North Wales,
UK, with his wife.

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