Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822521393
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of the American tallgrass prairie.
Life in a Grassland
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822521393
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of the American tallgrass prairie.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822521393
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Examines the physical features, processes, and many different species of plants and animals that make up the ecosystem of the American tallgrass prairie.
Life in a Grassland
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681031434
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Grasslands vary around the globe and are home to many life forms, including big cats and grazing animals. These sprawling fields are found on every single continent except Antarctica. Tropical savannahs and rolling prairies are just two different types of grasslands. Curious young learners are sure to discover that grasslands are a fascinating biome in this engaging title!
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681031434
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Grasslands vary around the globe and are home to many life forms, including big cats and grazing animals. These sprawling fields are found on every single continent except Antarctica. Tropical savannahs and rolling prairies are just two different types of grasslands. Curious young learners are sure to discover that grasslands are a fascinating biome in this engaging title!
Grassland Biome
Author: Grace Hansen
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680805592
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Readers will learn about the two main types of grassland biomes, which are tropical grasslands (savannas) and temperate grasslands. The text will focus on the climate, plants, and animals that are found on grasslands around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1680805592
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Readers will learn about the two main types of grassland biomes, which are tropical grasslands (savannas) and temperate grasslands. The text will focus on the climate, plants, and animals that are found on grasslands around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
What Can Live in a Grassland?
Author: Sheila Anderson
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541503066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Lions, and zebras, and termites, oh my! See why a grassland is a perfect habitat for these animals and more.
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541503066
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Lions, and zebras, and termites, oh my! See why a grassland is a perfect habitat for these animals and more.
What If There Were No Bees?
Author: Suzanne Slade
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404860193
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Talks about each habitat and shows what would happen if the food chain was broken.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404860193
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Talks about each habitat and shows what would happen if the food chain was broken.
Life in the Grasslands (eBook)
Author: Edward P. Ortleb
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 0787783129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The information and activities in this resource book enhance children's knowledge and awareness about the components of a grassland environment, including physical and biological characteristics. Students will discover where grasslands are located on our planet. They will find out what features grasslands have in common, what types of organisms live there, and how they are adapted to survive. As they explore grassland organism adaptations, students will discover similarities and differences between living things in grasslands and those in other ecosystems. Activities that emphasize the ecology of plants and animals, food chains and food webs, and survival will enable students to relate the structure of living things to their roles in the ecosystem. Four transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks) are included to engage students in discussion and reinforce the concepts presented in the book.
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 0787783129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The information and activities in this resource book enhance children's knowledge and awareness about the components of a grassland environment, including physical and biological characteristics. Students will discover where grasslands are located on our planet. They will find out what features grasslands have in common, what types of organisms live there, and how they are adapted to survive. As they explore grassland organism adaptations, students will discover similarities and differences between living things in grasslands and those in other ecosystems. Activities that emphasize the ecology of plants and animals, food chains and food webs, and survival will enable students to relate the structure of living things to their roles in the ecosystem. Four transparencies (print books) or PowerPoint slides (eBooks) are included to engage students in discussion and reinforce the concepts presented in the book.
The Desert Grassland
Author: Mitchel P. McClaran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished, and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"Leading experts in geography, biology, botany, zoology, and geoscience present new research on the desert grassland and review a vast amount of earlier work. They reveal that present-day grasses once grew in the ice age forests that existed in these areas before the climate dried and the trees vanished, and how the intensity and frequency of fire can influence the plant and animal species of the grassland.
Grassland
Author: Richard Manning
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140233881
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection to the natural world, but also a vital link to our own prehistoric roots, our history, and our culture. Framing his book with the story of the remarkable elk, whose mysterious wanderings seem to reclaim his ancestral plains, Manning traces the expansion of America into what was then viewed as the American desert and considers our attempts over the last two hundred years to control unpredictable land through plowing, grazing, and landscaping. He introduces botanists and biologists who are restoring native grasses, literally follows the first herd of buffalo restored to the wild prairie, and even visits Ted Turner's progressive--and controversial--Montana ranch. In an exploration of the grasslands that is both sweeping and intimate, Manning shows us how we can successfully inhabit this and all landscapes.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140233881
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
More than forty percent of our country was once open prairie, grassland that extended from Missouri to Montana. Taking a critical look at this little-understood biome, award-winning journalist Richard Manning urges the reclamation of this land, showing how the grass is not only our last connection to the natural world, but also a vital link to our own prehistoric roots, our history, and our culture. Framing his book with the story of the remarkable elk, whose mysterious wanderings seem to reclaim his ancestral plains, Manning traces the expansion of America into what was then viewed as the American desert and considers our attempts over the last two hundred years to control unpredictable land through plowing, grazing, and landscaping. He introduces botanists and biologists who are restoring native grasses, literally follows the first herd of buffalo restored to the wild prairie, and even visits Ted Turner's progressive--and controversial--Montana ranch. In an exploration of the grasslands that is both sweeping and intimate, Manning shows us how we can successfully inhabit this and all landscapes.
Grassland Biomes
Author: Louise Spilsbury
Publisher: Earth's Natural Biomes
ISBN: 9780778741237
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This engaging book gives readers core information about grassland biomes on prairies, steppes, pampas, and savannahs. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life on open grassland, who lives in these environments, and how humans impact life there.
Publisher: Earth's Natural Biomes
ISBN: 9780778741237
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This engaging book gives readers core information about grassland biomes on prairies, steppes, pampas, and savannahs. Find out where each kind is found, how animals and plants have adapted to life on open grassland, who lives in these environments, and how humans impact life there.
Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland
Author: Randall W. Myster
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461437970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed. Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen for a long time, perhaps largely due to climate change and other human-induced factors. Indeed ecotones are more sensitive to climate change than the biomes on either side, and thus may serve as critical early indicators of future climate change. As ecotones change, they also redefine the limits of the biomes on either side by altering their distributions of species because, in addition to their own endemic species, any ecotone will also have species from both adjoining biomes. Consequently, they may also be places of high levels of species interaction, serving as active evolutionary laboratories, which generate new species that then migrate back into adjacent biomes. Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland explores how these ecotones have changed in the past, how they are changing today, and how they are likely to change in the future. The book includes chapters from around the world with a special focus on South American and Neotropical ecotones.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461437970
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed. Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen for a long time, perhaps largely due to climate change and other human-induced factors. Indeed ecotones are more sensitive to climate change than the biomes on either side, and thus may serve as critical early indicators of future climate change. As ecotones change, they also redefine the limits of the biomes on either side by altering their distributions of species because, in addition to their own endemic species, any ecotone will also have species from both adjoining biomes. Consequently, they may also be places of high levels of species interaction, serving as active evolutionary laboratories, which generate new species that then migrate back into adjacent biomes. Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland explores how these ecotones have changed in the past, how they are changing today, and how they are likely to change in the future. The book includes chapters from around the world with a special focus on South American and Neotropical ecotones.