Exploring the World Around You,9780890513774

Exploring the World Around You

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Edition: Illus.
ISBN13: 9780890513774
ISBN10: 0890513775
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Master Books
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Table of Contents

Unit One: Spaceship Earth and the Web of Life
Building on the Right Foundation; Seeing the 4 Cs
5(5)
Ecosystems and Biogeography
10(6)
Biomes
16(8)
Aquatic Ecosystems
24(7)
Unit Two: The Environment: Abiotic Factors
Light and the Rhythms of Life
31(5)
Temperature, Water, and Minerals
36(9)
Unit Three: The Community: Biotic Relationships
Food
45(7)
Energy Flow
52(8)
Population Balance
60(8)
Population Growth and Control
68(6)
Succession
74(11)
Unit Four: The Individual and the Species in the Ecosystem
Niches, Habitats, and Adaptations
85(7)
Symbiosis
92(7)
Unit Five: Mankind in the Biosphere
Pollution
99(7)
Energy Problems
106(8)
Preservation and Human Population
114(13)
Index 127(3)
Glossary 130

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