Life in a Stream


Book Description

Text and photographs introduce the stream biome, describing its environment, plants, and animals that live in or near streams including fish, insects, and bears.




Beastly Biomes


Book Description

What kinds of animals live in the different environments Earth supports? This book shows how animals, birds, and fish all have a distinctive place to thrive, creating homes in unexpected places.




What is a Biome?


Book Description

Biomes are the major communities of plants and animals in our world. Children will love learning about life in everything from the chilly arctic tundra biome to dry, grassy savannahs.




Living in a Biome


Book Description

Animals adapt in a wide variety of environments. Their adaptations make it possible to eat, drink, and find shelter in places as diverse as the desert and the rain forest. In this colorful new Pebble Plus series, explore the diversity of these environments and read about the animals that make these places their homes. Pebble Plus offers the same high-quality nonfiction topics and low reading levels of Pebble Books in an enlarged, graphically enhanced format. This series explores and supports the standard The Living Environment: Interdependence of Life, as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project 2061. This series is leveled for early-intervention reading programs: Early Level to Newly Fluent Level.




Many Biomes, One Earth


Book Description

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.




Ecological Geography of the Sea


Book Description

This book presents an in-depth discussion of the biological and ecological geography of the oceans. It synthesizes locally restricted studies of the ocean to generate a global geography of the vast marine world.Based on patterns of algal ecology, the book divides the ocean into four primary compartments, which are then subdivided into secondary compartments.*Includes color insert of the latest in satellite imagery showing the world's oceans, their similarities and differences*Revised and updated to reflect the latest in oceanographic research*Ideal for anyone interested in understanding ocean ecology -- accessible and informative




Life in a Forest


Book Description

Text and photographs introduce the forest biome, describing its environment, plants, and animals such as foxes, birds, and insects.




Life in a Tundra


Book Description

Offering a stark contrast to hot, sandy deserts and tropical rain forests, the tundra is buried in snow and ice most of the year. However, life finds a way to flourish. During the short summer, flowers bloom and animals roam the land even though temperatures rarely reach 50 degrees Fahrenheit! This title will teach young readers how plants and animals survive in severe cold.




Life in a Wetland


Book Description

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to life in a wetland. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--




Life in a Pond


Book Description

Explores how plants, insects, fish, birds, and other animals come together in ponds and make them their homes.




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