Stuffed with eye-popping pictures and far out facts, all the questions you could ever ask about the animal kingdom are answered in this one-of-a-kind family reference.
There are more than 400,000 types of plants, and they include the tallest, heaviest, and oldest living things on Earth. Together, they make up the plant kingdom, one of the five kingdoms of living things. Like animals, plants need energy to survive and to grow, but they get it from sunlight instead of from food. Life on Earth depends on plants. All animals eat plants or plant-eaters. As a by-product of making their own food, plants release oxygen—the gas that all animals need to breathe.
Welcome to the Arctic, the icy, remote land at the very topof the world ...
Most of the Arctic is a big frozen sea with a few areas of land around the edges. Come and spend 24 hours with the animals that live there ...
In most of the world, each 24-hour period is part day, part night - long days in summer, long nughts in winter. At the poles, though, there is no dark night in summer and no bright day in winter. Arctic (DK 24 Hours) takes you through an April day with animals that live there.
A mountain is a harsh environment, yet many animals thrive up on the slopes. Spend 24 Hours with some of them and discover how they eat, sleep and survive on the tough terrain.
We spend a day and night in the Andes to look at the creatures that live up above the tree line. During the 24 Hours, we return to the five animals shown on this book to see what they are doing.
