| A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope Contributor(s): Silverstein, Alvin (Author), Silverstein, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486403815 ISBN-13: 9780486403816 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $6.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: This inexpensive volume showcases an array of curious creatures: a blob-like amoeba; a slipper-shaped paramecium and its mortal enemy, the suctorian; and many others. The authors recount the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by these animals in easy-to-understand language that opens the door to a wonderful world of discovery. 37 illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Experiments & Projects |
| Dewey: 578.76 |
| LCCN: 98-27926 |
| Series: Dover Children's Science Books |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.35" W x 8.93" (0.28 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live. You'll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you'll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You'll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles. With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you'll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself |