What Are Earth's Biomes?


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This easy-to-understand book makes learning about our planet's biomes simple and fun! Each of Earth's six major types of environments is explored, with exciting full-color photographs and engaging layout and design. What are Earth's biomes? explains this important subject and stresses the importance of conserving our precious biomes and the life forms that inhabit each one.




Earth's Biomes


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There is a huge variety of life on Earth, with creatures in almost any shape and size you can imagine. 'Earth's Biomes' explores the different areas, or biomes, of our planet. This book also examines the different physical elements that make these areas unique, and how these differences have influenced the evolution of all living things. How do plants grown in soil that is permanently frozen? Does what happens in one biome affect the rest of the world? What is biodiversity? Check out this book to learn more! Sci-Hi is an engaging, comprehensive, and visually stimulating series that takes learning science core curriculum to a whole new level.




Biomes


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Discusses different types of biomes on Earth: forests, deserts, grasslands, tundra, mountains, oceans. Activities and projects include making a blubber mitt, a rainstick, a tornado in a bottle, a food chain flipbook, a glacier, a cone bird feeder as well as experiments with erosion, acid rain, salt and seed germination and air quality.--




Earth's Biomes


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The Hands on Science series provides students with background on key concepts in Science. Each title includes engaging hands on exercises that bring the concepts to life for kids. Real World Science: Earth's Biomes, include information on tropic rain forests, deciduous forests, grasslands, deserts, taiga, and tundra.




Biomes of Earth


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This handy one-volume resource explores all of Earth's major biomes--both natural and human-created--and their characteristic plants and animals.




Many Biomes, One Earth


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Discover earth's natural neighborhoods on a colorful trek through the twelve terrestrial biomes of North and South America. Travel from the icy tundra, where the polar bear makes its home, through grasslands, and driest of deserts, to the tropical rain forest, the natural home of more than thirty million kinds of insects. From mountains to prairies, James M. Needham’s rich, exquisite illustrations highlight the smallest of details throughout each natural habitat, while Sneed B. Collard’s fascinating, fact-filled text present a detailed journey through earth's splendid ecosystems. Readers will love traveling around the world and learning about all the different homes that nature has to offer.




Earth's Biomes


Book Description

The Hands on Science series provides students with background on key concepts in Science. Each title includes engaging hands on exercises that bring the concepts to life for kids. Real World Science: Earth's Biomes, include information on tropic rain forests, deciduous forests, grasslands, deserts, taiga, and tundra.




Exploring Earth's Biomes


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It’s a tough life out there. Throughout Earth’s six major biomes—tundra, taiga, rain forest, temperate deciduous forest, grassland, and desert—plants and animals use special strategies to cope with challenges in their environment. Have you ever wondered how plants survive in the desert? Or what happens to worms in the winter? Or where you fit in a food web? In this book, you’ll find these answers and more by doing experiments about Earth’s biomes. Learn to think like an ecologist as you plant, bake, and dig your way through biomes around the globe.




Biomes and Ecosystems


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Explains how ecosystems, including food webs and natural cycles, work to move energy around the planet.




Counting: Earth's Biomes


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Earth has many biomes. Each one has special features. Each one has its own plants and animals. Learn about biomes and the species that live in them. Read along and count down Earth's top five biomes. This full-color nonfiction reader will engage students in reading while introducing them to new vocabulary terms and concepts. Important text features include a glossary and a table of contents to develop students' comprehension and literacy skills. This book aligns with national and state standards and features exciting TIME For Kids content to keep grade 2 students engaged in learning.