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What Is a Plant?
Contributor(s): Kalman, Bobbie (Author)
ISBN: 0865059594     ISBN-13: 9780865059597
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $8.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2000
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Annotation: Plants provide people and animals with food, shelter, and oxygen. "What Is a Plant" introduces young readers to a variety of plant types, including ferns, mosses and concepts like single-cell organisms, germination, and photosynthesis. Full color.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Flowers & Plants
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Trees & Forests
Dewey: 580
LCCN: 99-085749
Lexile Measure: 830
Series: Science of Living Things (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.12" H x 8.4" W x 9.56" (0.34 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Secular
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 36327
Reading Level: 5.5   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
The Science of Living Things series helps children understand that they are as connected to trees, rocks, and weather as the animals that live outdoors This important series helps define the basic concept of life and investigates the incredible world of living things. Each book explores a basic scientific concept or animal using:
-- easy-to-understand text
-- clearly labeled diagrams
-- exciting, full-color photographs

Plants provide people and animals with food, shelter, and even oxygen. Plants help us live and grow, but how does a plant grow? Where do plants grow? What is a Plant? introduces young readers to a variety of plant types, including ferns, carnivorous plants, mosses, and trees. This fact filled book explains:
-- photosynthesis
-- different methods of reproduction
-- how seeds germinate and grow
-- which types of plants grow in different climates
-- how plants defend themselves