Inside Biosphere 2
Subtitle: Earth Science Under Glass
By: Mary Kay Carson ; with photographs by Tom Uhlman
Contributors: Uhlman, Tom, illustrator
Series: Scientists in the field; Scientists in the field
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780544416642
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Ecology; Closed ecological systems (Space environment); Research; Biosphere 2 (Project); Human ecology; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Inside Biosphere Two; Earth science under glass
Description: "In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the Scientists in the Field mission statement - in this case, the field/lab is a replica that allows the scientists to conduct large scale experiments that would otherwise be impossible."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 77-78) and index.

Ages 10+.

Grades 7 to 8.

Middle School.

1060 Lexile

Accelerated Reader 7.0

Reading Counts! 9.5

Text in English.