An exciting look at the interactions of plants, animals, and humans, this book answers many popular and puzzling questions. With key facts, terms, and definitions throughout the text, lots of excellent illustrations, questions at the end of each chapter, and an answer key, this valuable reference makes a wonderful supplement to any curriculum. Dr. Gary Parker takes the reader on a tour of the planet through seven different terrestrial biomes: desert, grassland, deciduous forest, tropical rain forest, coniferous forest or taiga, tundra, and chaparral. Each part of the tour explains the plant and animal habitats and the fragile coexistence and dependencies they share. Fascinating from cover to cover, this book provides an enhanced knowledge and understanding of our planet and the interrelationships of its inhabitants as designed by God. From the back cover: It has been said that our planet is really just an insignificant speck in a vast universe, but that's not true! In fact, the conditions for life found on earth are supremely unique and make our life here comfortable. This despite the reality that the world around us is also tainted and in need of careful calibration in order to continue. This scripturally founded book opens a window to the spectacular environments found on our planet, from deserts to the tropics, with respect to creationism. Researcher and biologist Dr Gary Parker brings his vast knowledge of ecology to a teaching setting, exploring and explaining ecosystems, population growth, habitats, adaptations, energy problems, and much more. Learn about insect control in California, why mammals have fur, and how sharks maintain "friendships" with small fish known as remora. "Exploring the World Around You" brings the varieties of our planet's habitats alive to the reader, and is a wonderful learning tool complete with illustrations, chapter tests, and an index. Table of Contents:
- Building on the Right Foundation; Seeing the 4 Cs
- Ecosystems and Biogeography
- Biomes
- Aquatic Ecosystems
- Light and the Rhythms of Life
- Temperature, Water, and Minerals
- Food
- Energy Flow
- Population Balance
- Population Growth and Control
- Succession
- Niches, Habitats, and Adaptations
- Symbiosis
- Pollution
- Energy Problems
- Preservation and Human Population
- Title: Exploring the World Around You
- Item#: B03033
- ISBN: 0-89051-377-5
- Size: 140 pages
- Length: 10.88
- Width: 8.38
- Weight: 1.3
- Copyright: 2002