Author: Dona Herweck Rice Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 1433399679 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 14
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From tide pools to the ocean, the sea is filled with amazing life forms! Early readers will be engaged from beginning to end with informational text, vivid photos, and a picture glossary of marine animals.
Author: Callum Roberts Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101583568 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 524
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A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
Author: Edward P. Ortleb Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press ISBN: 0787783102 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 36
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The information and activities in this resource book enhance children's knowledge and awareness of the components of a saltwater environment, including physical and biological characteristics. Students will discover where oceans and seas are located throughout the world. They will find out what characteristics saltwater habitats have in common, what lives there, and how living things survive. As they explore saltwater organism adaptations, students will discover similarities and differences between living things in saltwater and non-saltwater environments. Activities that emphasize the ecology of plants and animals, food chains, and protection will enable students to relate the structure of a living thing to the functions necessary for its survival. Four transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks) are included to engage students in discussion and reinforce the concepts presented in the book.
Author: Claire A. Nivola Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ISBN: 1466808756 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep-water walks, Sylvia Earle has dedicated her life to learning more about what she calls "the blue heart of the planet." With stunningly detailed pictures of the wonders of the sea, Life in the Ocean tells the story of Sylvia's growing passion and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world. This picture book biography also includes an informative author's note that will motivate young environmentalists. Life in the Ocean is one of The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012
Author: Jill McDonald Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0525578781 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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Learn from home and explore the world with these fun and easy board books! All young children love to play in the waves at the beach. Here's a Hello, World! board book that teaches them all about oceans and the creatures and plants that live there. Hello, World! is a series designed to introduce first nonfiction concepts to babies and toddlers. Told in clear and easy terms ("An octopus has eight arms. Can you count them all?") and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! is a perfect way to bring science, nature, and culture into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops. Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: •Solar System •Weather •Backyard Bugs •Birds •Dinosaurs •My Body •How Do Apples Grow? •Ocean Life •Moon Landing •Pets •Arctic Animals •Construction Site •Rainforest Animals •Planet Earth •Reptiles •Cars and Trucks •Music •Baby Animals •On the Farm
Author: Frances Dipper Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0957394624 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 544
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The marine world is an immense, three-dimensional living space inhabited by marine life that varies from the mundane to the bizarre. Its salty influence extends up river estuaries, over seashores and inland with brine-laden spray. The Marine World covers all those organisms that live in, on and around the ocean bringing together in a single text everything from the miniscule to the immense. With chapters on marine bacteria, plants, fungi and protozoa, as well as all the major groups of marine invertebrates, plus fish, reptiles, mammals and birds, it provides an insight into the existence and way of life of almost everything living in the ocean. Each animal or plant is found in its own particular place and The Marine World encompasses principal ocean habitats and ecosystems including open water, seashores, deep sea, coral reefs and many more. Written with clear, accessible text and illustrated throughout with photographs and detailed drawings, The Marine World provides in depth information to provide answers for each group on 'what?' 'where?' and 'how?', via sections on identification, distribution, structure, biology, classification and conservation.
Author: Sheila Anderson Publisher: Lerner Publications TM ISBN: 1512462802 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 25
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Discover how adaptations make the ocean a perfect habitat for whales, lobsters, sea horses, and many, many more animals.
Author: Stephen R. Palumbi Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691169810 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 240
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The Extreme Life of the Sea exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches to show how marine life thrives against the odds, describing how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young.
Author: J. Emmett Duffy Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691190534 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 464
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A comprehensive introduction to ocean ecology and a new way of thinking about ocean life Marine ecology is more interdisciplinary, broader in scope, and more intimately linked to human activities than ever before. Ocean Ecology provides advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners with an integrated approach to marine ecology that reflects these new scientific realities, and prepares students for the challenges of studying and managing the ocean as a complex adaptive system. This authoritative and accessible textbook advances a framework based on interactions among four major features of marine ecosystems—geomorphology, the abiotic environment, biodiversity, and biogeochemistry—and shows how life is a driver of environmental conditions and dynamics. Ocean Ecology explains the ecological processes that link organismal to ecosystem scales and that shape the major types of ocean ecosystems, historically and in today's Anthropocene world. Provides an integrated new approach to understanding and managing the ocean Shows how biological diversity is the heart of functioning ecosystems Spans genes to earth systems, surface to seafloor, and estuary to ocean gyre Links species composition, trait distribution, and other ecological structures to the functioning of ecosystems Explains how fishing, fossil fuel combustion, industrial fertilizer use, and other human impacts are transforming the Anthropocene ocean An essential textbook for students and an invaluable resource for practitioners
Author: Dona Herweck Rice
Author: Callum Roberts
Author: Edward P. Ortleb
Author: Claire A. Nivola
Author: Cynthia Stierle
Author: Jill McDonald
Author: Frances Dipper
Author: Sheila Anderson
Author: Stephen R. Palumbi
Author: J. Emmett Duffy