food chains (ecology)

Captivating photos of baby raccoons, ducks, herons, newts, turtles, beavers, and other animals help show children which animals are found in wetlands across North America. Readers will get a close-up look at animals that live in the water as well as near it.

Children will love the up-close photos of baby animals that live in deserts: jackrabbits, coyotes, foxes, tortoises, owls, scorpions, lizards, rattlesnakes, and more. Readers will discover how baby animals find food, keep cool in the scorching heat, and stay alive in the desert.

Explains how the plants and animals of a tundra form a food web in which energy is distributed throughout the entire environment.

Explains what food webs are, and follows a lion, a cheetah, a Nile crocodile, a spotted hyena, and an African wild dog as they weave food webs in the African savanna. Includes descriptions and photographs of various savanna plants and animals.

Explains what food webs are, and follows an American black bear, a gray wolf, a great horned owl, a Canada lynx, and a bald eagle as they weave food webs in a North American temperate forest. Includes descriptions and photographs of various temperate forest plants and animals.

Provides an introduction to desert food chains and habitats, looks at where deserts are located, identifies producers, secondary consumers, primary consumers, and decomposers in desert food chains and webs, explains how humans are harming desert food chains, and discusses what can be done to protect deserts.

Text and illustrations describe a river food chain and provide facts about bacteria, plants, and animals in a river ecosystem.

Explains the natural patterns by which plants and animals depend upon each other and the environment for food, and emphasizes the dangers of pesticides and other human interference with the ecosystem.

A color-illustrated look at the tide pool food chain, describing each link, from the producers to the decomposers.

Photographs and simple text explain the food chain which is found in meadow habitats, discussing how each insect, plant, and animal fits into the process.