plants

Up-close photographs and simple text describe the plants, animals, and insects that inhabit a garden.

Provides a photographic tour through the Arctic, describing its land formations and the plants and animals that inhabit it.

Presents facts about flowering plants including seed development, photosynthesis, stems and roots, leaves, and pollination.

Photographs and illustrations provide young readers with an introduction to the different parts of a plant, explaining what each is used for.

Includes directions for creating temporary habitats indoors that allow for the study of various animals and plants in natural settings.

Examines plants, discussing concepts of botany; evolution and adaptation; renewable and nonrenewable resources; development and uses of botanical resources; and their importance, management, and conservation. Includes glossary and a list of resources.

Explains how plants gather nutrients, discussing plant structure, the different types of nutrients, and how nutrient deprivation affects plants, and examines the role plants play in the global recycling of nutrients, a process that affects humans.

Presents an illustrated overview of plant genetics, covering such topics as meiosis, mitosis, polyploid plants, genetic processes, and gene functions, and also discusses plant genetics history and agricultural advances.

Describes the risks genetically modified foods pose to society.

Guide to birds, wildflowers, trees, grasses, insects, etc. of N. America's prairies, fields, and meadows.