Full name: Our Wet World: Aquatic Ecosystems

Author: Sneed B. Collard III Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780881062687 0881062685

If anyone ever looked at a lake, stream, or any body of water that makes up 70% of our earth and wondered what lives in there, this is the book with the answers. Every page explores the story of life underwater. Readers learn about unusual animals, like the crafty mudskipper that can live in water and on land so that it can escape from hungry saltwater crocodiles. The fact-filled text also explains the mutual dependency of plant and animal in these ecosystems; while seagrass provides food for pinfish, sea turtles, and manatees, the seagrass is maintained by several of species that live among it, such as sea horses and baby barracuda. Common and not so common habitats are based on actual locations that readers can identify. Places such as a New England salt marsh or the rocky coast of British Columbia are illustrated with realistic detail. Maps and a glossary complete this learning experience. Similar books: One Well by Rochelle Strauss A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Being Mortal by Atul Gawande What If? by Randall Munroe Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Stiff by Mary Roach A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Cosmos by Carl Sagan Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben