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Upstream, Downstream

Exploring Watershed Connections

Rowena Rae

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ca. 12,99

Orca Book Publishers img Link Publisher

Kinder- und Jugendbücher / Sachbücher / Sachbilderbücher

Beschreibung

Key Selling Points

  • This book looks at the good and the bad of our interactions with watersheds around the world.
  • Upstream, Downstream includes ideas for readers to become more aware of the things they use and do in everyday life and how they are related to water and the health of watersheds for all organisms.
  • The book includes examples of people, including kids, doing positive things for the environment.
  • Introduces several basic concepts in biology and hydrology and illustrates them with real-world examples.
  • Rowena Rae is the author of Chemical World, which is also part of the Orca Footprints series.

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Schlagwörter

ecology, ecosystem services, water cycle, water source, stream, wetland, estuary, ecological footprint, industrial revolution, groundwater, dams, hydrologic cycle, water, water-land connections, river, agriculture, STEM, water diversion, lake, deforestation, large-scale engineering, glacier, riparian zone, biodiversity hotspot, environment, dam building, green, earth sciences, land cover, riparian, biology, catchment basin, climate change, land use, aquifer, floodplain, reservoir, delta, irrigation, pond