Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Biology - Marine Biology

Oceans

Name: Oceans
Author: Lucy Baker
ISBN: 9781587285707

by Lucy Baker

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Overview

A unique series of information books packaged with bonus CD-ROMs. Interfact combines the lively design of an excellent information book with the challenge of an activity-packed CD-ROM. These fact-filled books contain amazing facts, photographs, and illustrations, a glossary and an index. Book and disk are cross-referenced to foster both reading and computer skills.

Examines plant and animal life, minerals, and other riches below the surface of the ocean, and the potential havoc that humans can wreak in harveting resources from the seas.

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Children's Literature

This title from the "Jump! Ecology" series is a generally informative package focusing half on the aquatic life and resources of the oceans and half on the damage humans wreak on the environment. The well-captioned color photographs make this useful for the researcher or browser but the workaday line-and-color wash illustrations don't compel interest. A weak story set in Fiji about a fierce shark tricked into guarding fishermen reads like a blandly told folktale, but no source is given. A glossary for words highlighted in the text, an index and a thirteen-question true or false quiz are included. Useful but not an essential purchase. 2000, Two-Can, $9.95 and $6.95. Ages 8 to 12. Reviewer: Susan Hepler