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Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The biosphere is the part of Earth where life exists or can exist. It includes all living things on Earth, as well as the nonliving systems that help them survive. Readers of this stimulating volume will learn how people affect the biosphere and how life and energy are maintained in the biosphere. Key elementary science curricula, including concepts such as food chains and life cycles, are reinforced through eye-catching graphic elements and age-appropriate...
Author
Publisher
Synergetic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Anyone suffering from the global warming blues will cherish this uplifting account of the most ambitious environmental experiment ever undertaken. Biosphere 2, a world under glass, covered three acres of Arizona desert. Contained within a magnificently designed air-tight, sealed glass and steel framed architectural setting were models of seven biomes: an ocean with coral reef, marsh, rainforest, savannah, desert, farm and a micro-city. Eight people...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"Lovelock elaborates on his startling theory of life proposed in 1979 called Gaia. Much scientific work has confirmed Lovelock's theory that Earth is a single organism controlling its own environment, its life sustained by life"--Amazon.com.
Series
Publisher
Hawkhill Associates
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Part one of The biosphere traces the history of four billion years of the growth of the atmosphere and of changing life on planet earth. Part two provides the concepts needed to understand the biosphere today. Part one of Ecosystems traces ecology's history as a science. The naturalist tradition of Henry David Thoreau is contrasted with the hard science tradition of modern quantitative ecologists, such as Eugene and Howard Odum. Part two outlines...
