How & why?

Describes how various animals, including scorpions, spiders, and snakes, use poison to protect themselves or to acquire food.

Describes some of the ways such different creatures as terns, chipmunks, bears, toads, weasels, and praying mantises survive the winter.

Describes some of the various places where birds build nests and lay their eggs.

Explores how and why some animals of the land and sea are able to grow new body parts.

Briefly explains how spiders make silk and use it in various ways.

Describes some of the ways such different creatures as terns, chipmunks, bears, toads, weasels, and praying mantises survive the winter.

Describes some of the different ways animals protect themselves from danger.

Explains how insects use plants for food and how their presence is helpful to the plants.

Explains how different kinds of birds use their beaks for such things as eating, preening, and courtship displays.

Briefly describes some of the different ways various kinds of seeds are carried from place to place to find a good place to grow.