Mountains inside out
Let's climb a mountain--a towering, sky-scraping world that reaches high above Earth's surface. What can live so high up where it is harder to breathe and the hillsides are steep? Peel back the corners of a mountain to discover the incredible organisms that live in this ecosystem, from wolves and birds to frogs and goats
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- ISBN: 9780778714989
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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm. - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and (page 31) index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What is an ecosystem? -- Energy in ecosystems -- The foothills -- Montane forests -- Cloud forests -- Alpine grasslands -- Alpine tundra -- Plateaus and Montane steppes -- The death zone -- Mountains of the sea -- Mountains and other ecosystems -- People and mountains -- Saving mountains. |