Fascinating book introduces grade-school youngsters to industrious ants, tunnel-building earthworms, snails and slugs, beetles, and many other creatures inhabiting the world beneath our feet. Vivid descriptions of how they live, breed and interact; their methods of locomotion, feeding and defense; and the effect they have on the soil in which they live.
Grade-schoolers learn how ants, snails, slugs, beetles, earthworms, spiders, and other subterranean creatures live, breed, interact, move about, defend themselves, and more.
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9 | (15) |
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15 | (8) |
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Earthworms: Tunnel Builders |
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23 | (8) |
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Roundworms: Threadlike Wrigglers |
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31 | (5) |
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Snails and Slugs: Slime Gliders |
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36 | (5) |
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Wood Lice: Armored Scavengers |
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41 | (5) |
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Centipedes and Millipedes: Many-Legged Crawlers |
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46 | (6) |
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Springtails: Swarming Leapers |
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52 | (8) |
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Spiders and Their Relatives: Lurking Hunters |
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60 | (9) |
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Mites: Tiny Eight-Leggers |
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69 | (4) |
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73 | (9) |
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Ants: Underground Kingdoms |
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82 | (9) |
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Humans and the World of the Soil |
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91 | (3) |
| Further Reading |
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94 | (1) |
| Index |
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95 | |
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