Ballance, Alison

Photographs and text provide information about sandy, or soft shore habitats, including mudflats, describing their physical features, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found on soft shores. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and text provide information about rocky, or hard shores, describing their geographical features, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found in hard shore habitats. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and text provide information about islands, explaining how they were formed, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found on islands. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and text provide information about mountains, explaining what they are, how they are formed, and what the weather is like in the mountains, and looking at some of the plants and animals that thrive in mountain habitats. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and text provide information about polar regions, describing weather conditions in Antarctica and the Arctic, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found in the frigid habitats. Includes a glossary.

Traces the natural histories of fourteen island groups in the South Seas that have developed distinctive differences as a result of their unique cycles of species arrival, colonization, evolution, and eventual extinction.

Photographs and text provide information about rocky, or hard shores, describing their geographical features, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found in hard shore habitats. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and text provide information about sandy, or soft shore habitats, including mudflats, describing their physical features, and looking at some of the unique plants and animals found on soft shores. Includes a glossary.