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"This title will introduce readers to rain forest ecosystems, the plants and animals that thrive there, its climate, its food web, any threats to it, and conservation efforts. Readers will also learn about the most well known rain forests and their unique characteristics."--
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Welcome to a South American rain forest! As you push your way through the thick, green jungle, you see, hear, and feel the wildlife. Howler monkeys screech overhead as they munch on leaves. Antbirds swoop by in search of tasty bugs. Day and night in the rain forest, the hunt is on to find food-and to avoid becoming someone else's next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant...
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"Fold a rain forest full of origami butterflies, tree frogs, jaguars, and more! Simple instructions and step-by-step images make origami easy while fun facts throughout share more information about the real-life versions of your fancy folded friends. Additional materials explore even more about rain forest biomes. Fold your way to fun with a world of origami"--
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What rain forest creature with a long, sticky tongue is feasting on a meal of termites? How does a capybara stay safe from giant anacondas and jaguars? Why are bats visiting the flowers that grow on kapok trees? And how are bromeliad flowers helpful to tiny rain forest frogs. Packed with facts, core-curriculum information, and fantastic photographs that support the text, this title takes readers on a mini safari through a rain forest. Like piecing...
29) Rainforests
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"Provides information on rainforests, one of the major biomes, or ecological areas, in the world today"--
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Known for their astounding biodiversity, tropical rainforests are a perennially popular topic of study in elementary schools. Readers will encounter the fascinating plants and animals that can be found in the canopy, understory, and forest floor. They'll also learn about the importance of rainforests, as well as the causes and effects of rainforest destruction. Spectacular photographs will draw in students, while sidebar boxes encourage critical thinking....
34) Rain forest life
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"Color photos and simple text describe animals and their adaptations to a rain forest habitat"--Provided by publisher.
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From brilliantly colored birds and wild elephants to towering trees and exotic flowers, rain forests are home to more than half of Earth's plants and animals. People living in rain forests depend on this vast array of life, and Earth itself relies on the world's rain forests to keep our climate and atmosphere in balance. But rain forests around the world are under threat. Once rain forests covered nearly 14 percent of Earth, but now they have shrunk...
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"This book explores the rich food chains and webs that exist in a rain forest habitat. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers learn how fragile food chains can be, how they can be broken, and what we can do to prevent this."--
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"Welcome to the eighth continent! As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Meg Lowman realized that she couldn't monitor her beloved leaves using any of the usual methods. So she put together a climbing kit: she sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees. Forty years later, Lowman remains one of the world's foremost arbornauts,...
40) Rain forests
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"This photo-illustrated book for emergent readers describes the rain forest ecosystem and the plants and animals adapted to live there. Includes picture glossary and index."--
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