life (biology)

Discusses how children can determine if an object is alive by looking at whether it needs water, food, and air.

Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.

Graphics clearly depict the relationship between living things of past and present and explain the biological processes of change that made evolution possible.

Sets forth a new scientific language to describe the interrelationships and interdependencies of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena, constituting a synthesis of such scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity, Gaia theory, and chaos theory.

Offers a new scientific synthesis in harmony with the Greek conception of the Earth as a living whole, as Gaia.

Explores what researchers have learned about human life in the last fifty years of the twentieth century, discussing how major discoveries changed the way people thought about the life cycle.

Explains the way living things function, and looks at the seven life processes, including movement, respiration, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, reproduction, and growth.

Explores the microscopic world of cells, examines how living things survive, and investigates the origins of life.

Explains the biological processes and causes of death, and examines death as human beings have perceived it throughout history and in different cultures.

Introduces vocabulary words that are related to living things, and features a story about a family who takes care of their vacationing friend's pets and plants.