ecology

Photographs, maps, and text provide information about the weather, animals, people, and other special features of the continent of Antarctica.

Discusses the sources, ingredients, types, and nutrients of soil and the life forms that it supports.

Explores through text and photographs the animals and plants that live in a woodland.

Explores through text and photographs the animals and plants that adapt to life in the mountains.

Explores through text and photographs the animals and plants that live in deserts.

A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

Describes swamps, marshes, and bogs, places which are almost always wet and soggy and which are habitats for hundreds of kinds of plants and animals.

Examines the rain forest as an ecological niche and describes the plant and animal life supported there.