Mountain Food Chains

by Angela Royston

Overview

This book explores the food chains and webs that exist in a mountain habitat. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers learn how fragile food chains can be, how they can be broken, and what we can do to prevent this.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484605196
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Food Chains and Webs
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	NC750L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Angela Royston has written many books for young people, including books about people at work, animals, health and the environment.

Table of Contents

High mountains — Where are the highest mountains? — What is a food chain? — A Himalayan food chain — Plants and the sun — Animal consumers — An Alpine food chain — Top predators — Dealing with leftovers — An Andean food chain — Food webs — Broken chains — Protecting food chains.

Editorial Reviews

This series leaves nothing out and makes sure to cover all of the aspects of food chains and webs that a child would need to know. The book has large text and is written for primary readers; however it is a useful tool for all elementary students. Putting these books in the hands of children will ensure complete understanding of this important life science concept and help develop interest and understanding of the menagerie of animals that exist all over the world!

NSTA Recommends

STARRED REVIEW! The attractive and well-organized books in this series present food chains and webs for six environmental settings. . . .Illustrated diagrams of the food chains make it easy to understand relationships among the plants and animals of each. The series provides interesting and readable information for students across elementary grades.

School Library Connection

11/01/2014
Gr 1–3—Similar in scope and overall approach to the publisher's "Protecting Food Chains" series (2011) but aimed at a younger audience, these studies progress from examining each element in a simple food chain to a more complex one. They then move on to a food web, before ending with very brief observations about environmental damage and conservation efforts. Each volume focuses on three selected examples of a particular habitat and in accessible language—general enough to be similar, though not identical, from volume to volume—explains the relationships among the elements in the chain or web from plant or other energy producer to top predator. Along with simplified world maps (oversimplified in Desert Food Chains, as Antarctica is not included in the tally), the illustrations include photos of flora and fauna caught in natural settings but not in the midst of actually chowing down. Consider this series as a geographically broader alternative to Paul Fleisher's "Early Bird Food Webs" (Lerner, 2008).

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