cold regions

When Blair Braverman was eighteen, she moved to artic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, but found work as a tour guide in a glacier in Alaska, determined to carve out life as a "tough girl" on the brink of adulthood.

Describes some of Earth's coldest places and explains how the sun's rays affect our planet's surface and how people manage to live in cold places. Presented in Spanish.

Compares how plants and animals vary when their environments are essentially the same except that one is hot and dry and the other cold, such as a hot river in India versus a cold river in Canada.

Through case studies and interviews, you'll discover what it means to be a polar scientist, studying the ice for answers to some of history's biggest questions.

Simple text and full-color photographs describe the coldest places on the planet.

Many people know that Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, but they might not know why. Readers of this globetrotting volume will learn how the sun's rays affect our planet's surface. They'll also discover other bitter cold places around the globe and how people manage to live there. In one town in Russia, people leave their glasses at home so they don't freeze to their face! Science and social studies topics combine to present some truly absorbing and chilling peeks at some of the world's most fascinating and frigid places.

Compares how plants and animals vary when their environments are essentially the same except that one is hot and dry and the other cold, such as a hot river in India versus a cold river in Canada.

Focuses on the land, plants , animals and climate of Alaska.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text provide an introduction to the ecology of the Earth's polar regions, and describe the plants, animals, and people who live and survive in frozen environments.

Describes the weather conditions, plant and animal life, and human activity in the four cold climate regions of the world: the poles, the tundra, subarctic regions, and highlands.