Examines the key characteristics of nonflowering plants, explaining what they are and what they look like, discusses classes of nonflowering plants, and features descriptions of a selection of nonflowering plant orders, including mosses, horsetails, conifers, and others.
A simple introduction to animal classification with a focus on reptiles, what they do, how they behave, and how this makes them different from other groups of animals.
Provides descriptions of over 950 jobs found on the Department of Labor's online database O*NET, with data on earnings, growth, education, and training, and arranged in interest areas based on the sixteen U.S. Department of Education clusters; includes an appendix for matching personality types to jobs.
Introduces the animal classification system and describes the characteristics of simple invertebrates, mollusks and echinoderms, arthropods, insects, spiders, fish, frogs and toads, reptiles, birds, and mammals.