Introduction Nature is all around us It’s plants It’s animals It’s weather It’s oceans It’s landforms Landforms include mountains and hills They’re anything formed by the earth Nature is amazing It’s beautiful It gives people joy It gives people life It can also be mean It can cause damage It can hurt people There are many strange things in nature Nature also does many strange things Some things are stranger than others They’re so strange that they’re hard to believe They sound like fiction But these stories are all true
Flora is plants Fauna is animals
Elephant Rock Elephant Rock is a large stone It’s in Italy It’s beside a state road It’s right outside a big town It looks like an elephant Its trunk is turned upward It’s pointed at the road Elephant Rock was part of a bigger mountain But it broke off It rolled down the valley It rolled along the road It got stuck Then erosion occurred Erosion is when nature slowly wears something down Weather wind and water affect things They changed the rock’s shape Elephant Rock has openings and holes The inside is made of caves Symbols from the Stone Age are on the walls 6 chapter one
