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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780241363393
Publication Date: 9 Sep 2019
Subject: Geography
Suitable for: Secondary
Explores how animals, plants, and humans survive in the Polar regions of our planet, both today and in the past
On the bleak polar ice caps, high on windswept mountains, and deep below frozen seas, life clings on in our planet's harshest environments.
Discover how animals, plants, and humans survive in these icy realms! Watch glaciers form, witness icebergs calve, and shiver with the great Polar explorers in this amazing journey through the world's most beautiful and threatened ecosystems.
Foreword
What is ice?
Prehistory
The ice ages
Living in the ice age
Prehistoric paintings
Mighty mammoth
Grazing giants
Cool cats
Big game
Cave creatures
Animal evolution
Frozen world
The Arctic
Glaciers
Glacier tundra
Lichen and moss
Polar plants
The taiga
Light show
Mountains
Ice
etc.