Usborne Living World Encyclopedia

Part 1 The story of the Earth: environments; seasonal changes; long-term changes; cycles in nature; plant life; animal life; extinctions. Part 2 The seas and oceans: the ocean surface; fish; the depths of the ocean; coral reefs; shorelines; estuaries. Part 3 Islands: island life. Part 4 Grasslands: grassland plants; grassland plant-eaters; grassland meat-eaters; survival on the grasslands; life underground. Part 5 Deserts: coping with the dryness; coping with desert temperatures; rain in the desert. Part 6 Temperate forests: deciduous forests; up in the canopy; the forest floor; northern evergreen forests; winter in the northern forests; Australia's hot, dry forests. Part 7 Polar regions: the Antarctic; the Arctic. Part 8 Mountains: living in a mountain climate; an isolated life. Part 8 Rivers and lakes: getting oxygen underwater; fresh water plants and animals; living by rivers and lakes; water birds; the Amazon. Part 9 Tropic reain forests; rain forest plants; the rain forest floor; climbing and gliding; monkeys and apes; rain forest hunters; colours in the rain forest. Part 10 Living with people: people and parasites. Part 11 Appendix: endangered species; describing living things.