Nature Encyclopedia
DK Publishing
Language: English
Pages: 131
ISBN: 2:00343767
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Bring your child face-to-face with nature with this first reference for young animal lovers, now in paperback. You can explore nature in all its glory and discover all about plants and animals and where they live.
You can find out what life is like underground, where you can find the world's ugliest fish and why fungi are so fantastic. It is packed with curiosity quizzes, 'turn and learn' boxes and bite-sized nature facts kids love getting their teeth into, there's lots to see and explore.
Go ahead, let your children take a walk into the natural world!
grass meadow is like a jungle in miniature. It is packed with different plants and animals. Hidden away A meadow may be inhabited by moles – almost blind creatures that remain below the ground. Ragwort is immensely poisonous to horses, ponies, donkeys, and cattle. Thistle fruits have parachutes. The seeds may be carried far and wide. Daisies hug the ground and do well in short grass. – such as on a lawn. Cowslip is found in clearings and at the edge of woodland as well as in meadows. Musk mallow
Moles are capable miners, tunnelling long passages through the soil and producing tell-tale mounds of earth. Campion flower Watch out! Crab spiders are powerful enough to catch bees and butterflies. They hide among the flowers, pouncing when prey comes close. Crab spider Get mucky Make yourself a miniature meadow inside a jar. Sprinkle a few seeds onto damp soil. Put the jar on a windowsill, keep it watered, and watch as the seeds grow. How long can a slow worm live: one, five, or 50 years?
Once the Sun sets, a desert changes. Animals move into the open, all busily hunting for something to eat. There’s a fox about Not the Sun! Scorpions are survivors. They can survive freezing conditions, not eat for a year, and even stay underwater for three days. But they can’t stand bright sun. Large ears help this African fox to keep cool in desert temperatures, but also to hear the insects on which it feeds. It is on the prowl at night. Bat-eared fox Desert scorpion The wily coyote Coyotes
this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13 978-1-4053-1037-6 ISBN-10 1-4053-1037-5 Colour reproduction by Colourscan, Singapore Printed and bound in China by Toppan Discover more at www.dk.com Contents Introduction 4-5 6-7 Polar Regions 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 The Poles Life in the Freezer Arctic Tundra Around Antarctica Cool Forests 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 24-25 26-27 28-29 Cool Forests Deciduous Forests The Forest Floor Coniferous Forests Fantastic Forest Fungi
ever been stung by a wasp, you’ll know how painful it is. Some wasps will build their papery nests in attics or beneath house timbers. They may contain 5,000 wasps. Wasps’ nest Wasp Deathwatch beetle What else? Many other creatures inhabit homes around the world. Here are a few more. Clothes moth caterpillars chew into woollen jumpers and fur coats. In the wood Woodworms are not worms but beetle larvae. They eat dead trees in the wild, but wooden floorboards and beams are as good. One type is