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Book

Deserts

Call Number

  • J 577.54 BENO (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Children's Press, c2011.

Physical Description

48 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary

Explores the desert ecology, discusses how some are formed, and explains how people, animals, and plants survive there.

Contents

  • Exploring the desert. What are deserts and where are they found?
  • With sand and wind. How does nature make a desert in the first place?
  • The big truth
  • The desert weather report. What is the forecast for today?
  • Man-made deserts. How have people and cities changed the deserts of the world?
  • Home, sweet desert home. How can people possibly live in some of the world's deserts?
  • Wildlife under the sun. What kinds of plants and animals survive in deserts?
  • True statistics.

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