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What can plants and animals teach us about how to make our lives better? For years, people have looked at nature to come up with new products. Learn about some ideas that have improved travel, medicine, and building. The natural world has shown us the way to many useful inventions! Nature-Based Tech is part of the Super Science Facts series that engages readers in grades 5 to 12 with fun science facts and colorful images on every page to support comprehension. The series covers Physical Science, Life Science and Social Sciences in individual sets. The minimal-text format (1,700 to 2,000 words per book) introduces content vocabulary defined in context and repeated in a glossary.
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This comprehensive study of sharks of the Mediterranean Sea provides a great deal of information about shark biology, human-shark interactions, recent research, and ecology and conservation in the region. The authors cover classification, common names, morphology, size, reproduction, diet, habitat, distribution, behavior, status and references to source materials for 50 species. Illustrations include dozens of rare photos and detailed author drawings.
In 1996, the Italian Great White Shark Data Bank began collecting and recording encounters in the Mediterranean between great white sharks and boats, bathers, divers, fishermen and others, from the Middle Ages to the present. This meticulously researched work presents the study's findings for the first time, releasing a trove of information on the great white's size, distribution, habitat, behavior, reproduction, diet, fisheries and attacks on humans. With 596 records of great white sharks from the entire Mediterranean Sea, this volume represents the most complete and comprehensive study on the species in that region and constitutes a rich resource for historians, scientists, fishermen, and divers.
The Author has condensed virtually everything that is known about the great white sharks that are preserved in European museums in this book. Available data of 105 great white sharks from 45 institutions is presented herein. Most material consists of taxidermied specimens and jaws. Most specimens with known capture locations come from the Mediterranean Sea. The majority of specimens are very old. The jaws belonging to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, dated from at least 1640-1660, are the oldest white shark material preserved in Europe. The largest specimens of which parts are preserved in any European museum may be those of which skeletal parts are preserved in the Museo di Anatomia Comp...
Learn how biomimicry uses nature as inspiration and how it is playing an important role in the medical field. This title supports NGSS for Engineering Design.
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Cet ouvrage offre au lecteur de nombreuses informations sur la systématique et la biologie des requins et regroupe les données les plus récentes sur le commerce des ailerons. Il se focalise sur l'identification des nageoires pectorales, dorsales et caudales des 48 espèces de requins les plus menacées de la liste rouge IUCN, établie en 2009, afin de permettre aux services de contrôle internationaux de pouvoir identifier rapidement les nageoires appartenant aux grands groupes actuels. Cette détermination est effectuée grâce aux clés dichotomiques focalisées sur les variations morphologiques, la coloration et le revêtement cutané. Chaque ordre de requins y est développé selon son statut Cites (Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction), IUCN (Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature) et selon son aire de répartition géographique, son intérêt économique et son statut de protection.
This book covers all the major areas of science relevant for beginning primary schoolteachers, explaining key concepts from the ground up, helping trainees develop into confident science educators.