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44) The living sea
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Explore mysterious depths to discover the beauty, diversity, and importance the ocean is to all life on earth.
45) Sea Turtles
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses sea turtles, their physical characteristics, how they feed, migrate, and nest, and what is being done to protect them from extinction.
46) Sea life
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Introduces a variety of things that live in or near the sea, including crabs, fish, and dolphins.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"For thousands of centuries, humans lived near the ocean, wandered right up to its edge, and turned back to the relative safety of the known land. Even when we invented ships and the very bravest among us sailed out, our fears and imaginations took over. What creatures could be living in the unknowable darkness, the bottomless depths? Giant worms, microorganisms that eat metal, faceless fish, giant sea spiders? Marine life is even more otherworldly...
49) Ocean world
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Uses photographs, illustrations, and simple text to introduce readers to the wonders of the oceans, and includes activities and quiz questions.
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Description
Open ocean - "In the immense space of the open ocean the sea bed is a staggering five miles below the suface and the nearest island is over 300 miles away. Yet here live many of the mosr spectacular predators in the ocean. Marvel as you experience ruthless and beautiful battles between hunter and prey." The Deep - "A place of mountain ranges, perpetual night, pressure extremes and cold ... and the weirdest life forms on our planet. Dive to the depths...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Oceanographers have been gripped by a new spirit of discovery and have undertaken the biggest population census of ocean species ever conducted, a 'Census of Marine Life.' Join National Geographic as they travel more than four billion years into the past to uncover how oceans and marine life came to exist.
58) Fish faces
Author
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The author-photographer, a marine biologist, uses his own photographs to introduce readers to some of the more amusing characteristics of the creatures he's encountered on his dives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler, a twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, was backpacking with her fiance and love of her life, Sean. Sean was a tall, blue-eyed, warmhearted Australian, and he and Shannon planned to return to Australia after their excursion to Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand. Their plans, however, were devastatingly derailed when a box jellyfish wrapped around Sean's leg, stinging and killing him in a matter of minutes as Shannon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Provides armchair entree to gripping adventure, cutting-edge science, and an intimate understanding of our deep blue home. At the center of this penetrating exploration of the ocean and the creatures dependent on it is Julia Whitty's description of the three-dimensional ocean river, far more powerful than the Nile or the Amazon, encircling the globe. It's a watery force connected to the earth's climate control and so to the eventual fate of the human...
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