Explores the world's oceans, focusing on their wildlife, from their social habits to the different ways each type of creature eats, sleeps, and avoids predators.
Discusses the world's oceans, the animals that live in them, and human use, abuse, and exploration of them.
Earth's oceans cover 70 per cent of its surface, and in this book you will find all you need to know about how they were formed and what they contain, the special characteristics of ocean wildlife both in shallow, sunlit water and in the dark depths, the effects of ocean currents, and how people use and abuse ocean resources. 'Location files' are mini case studies that focus on places with a pa…
A further title from the question and answer series I WONDER WHY, with colour artwork and cartoons, an examination of the physical geography of seashores, islands and oceans, the animals that live in the oceans and human exploration of deep water, with unusual facts and analogies.
Geography students will appreiciate this definitive, informative, and highly scenic series. Each title provides a solid picture of the landform and its variations are identified, what plants and animals live there, what impact people have had on it, and a variety of other land-use and environmental issues.
Water covers a huge portion of our planet and provides living spaces for countless varieties of wildlife. Water Habitats uses simple text to introduce beginning readers to some of the plants and animals that thrive in and around water. Each book describes a different watery environment and features gorgeous full-color photography.
The oceans are teeming with life of all kinds. Providing an overview of the ecosystem that exists in these bodies of water, this book examines the coastal wetlands, the deep ocean waters, the geography, geology, chemistry, and physics of oceans. It also looks at the ways to manage the oceans, as well as the future of this ecosystem.
Each double page of this picture book invites youngsters to discover things in the sea. Simple text and colourful scenes bursting with things to spot combine to help children develop skills in reading, counting, matching and identification.