Arctic animals

Title:

Arctic animals

Personal Author EPSB:

Bobbie, Kalman

Summary:

Photographs and text describe how a variety of animals survive in the Arctic and examines the Arctic food chain.

Year Published:

1993

Series:

Arctic world series

Physical Description:

56 p. : col. ill.

Note:

Includes index and glossary.

Contents:

A cold, cold world! -- Keeping warm -- The polar bear -- Whales are mammals -- The beluga -- The narwhal -- The bowhead -- Pinnipeds -- The walrus -- Arctic birds -- The murre -- The snowy owl -- The raven -- The gyrfalcon -- The ptarmigan -- Arctic food chain -- Polar fish and insects -- Caribou and reindeer -- The muskox -- The Arctic ground squirrel -- The collared lemming -- The Arctic hare -- The Arctic fox -- The Arctic wolf -- The husky -- The wolverine -- The ermine -- A fragile world.

Note (Local):

Regular

2-Used

Reading Grade level:

5.3.

Grade Interest level:

5-8.

Subject:

Animals -- Arctic regions.

Ecology.

Adaptation (Biology)

Zoology.