A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope
A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope
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A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope

Written by Alvin Silverstein and Virginia Silverstein
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6 - 10
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Aug 13, 1998
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Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live. You’ll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you’ll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You’ll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles. With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you’ll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780486403816
    Publication Date
    August 13, 1998
    Publisher
    Dover Publications
    Page Count
    64
    Audience
    Juvenile Reader
    Reading Age
    6 - 10 years

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