What does it take to live in the hottest places on Earth? What about the coldest, the highest, or the deepest? Some animals live in places where no human could survive. Their bodies can function in these extreme settings. They know how to find food, water, air, or whatever they need. What are some of these creatures, and what do they do to stay alive. Life at the Extremes is part of the Super Science Facts series that engages readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colorful images on every page to support comprehension. The series covers Physical Science, Life Science and Social Sciences in individual sets. The minimal-text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.
"Surviving the Extremes brings personal experience and scientific knowledge together beautifully, giving us narrative that are powerful, moving, and very real.
Think of them not as Rocky running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but as hunched over a table, straining to remember the order of a deck of cards. That's how they train. You can still play the theme from Rocky in your ...
Here is an exploration of what happens to our bodies in these seemingly uninhabitable environments.
"Superhuman is a fascinating, eye-opening and inspiring celebration of the best that the current human species has to offer. This is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there.
In this highly original book Maja Suderland takes the reader inside the concentration camps and examines the everyday social life of prisoners - their daily activities and routines, the social relationships and networks they created and the ...
At their ecological average temperature, the difference was even more pronounced for the high-altitude species ... A very interesting, similar altitudinal gradient has been observed in deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus (Storz et al., ...
Evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper has the answers. In Superhuman he takes us on a breathtaking tour of the peaks of human achievement that shows us what it feels like to be extraordinary—and what it takes to get there.
A diverse account of how life exists in extreme environments and these systems' susceptibility and resilience to climate change.
This book places Quentin Tarantino at the heart of Hollywood, showing a director who speaks film through film, who examines the world beyond the movies in a way few have previously attempted, and at which fewer still have succeeded.
Simply wonderful."--Callum Roberts, author of The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea "The Extreme Life of the Sea will reignite your fascination with how much life lives beneath the waves. This is extreme-ly good reading.