Life in the Ocean Depths
Publisher: Rosen Central
Published: 2009
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781435832657
Subjects: Ocean; Extreme environments; Deep-sea biology; Juvenile literature; Underwater exploration
Description: Discusses the conditions that make it difficult for humans to explore Earth's oceans, looks at devices that have been created to allow humans to survive under the water, and introduces some of the animals and plants that live in the ocean depths.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why not Planet Ocean?; title: Cold, dark, and heavy; title: If we only had gills; title: Microbes to monsters; title: Impossible life; title: Why is up better than down?