Life in the desert During the day, the desert looks lifeless. Most desert animals hide where they can escape the heat. When the sun goes down, a desert quickly cools. Desert rodents look for...
Plants that like it hot and dry
Desert plants are able to live without much water. A desert seems like a bad place for plants. In most deserts, the sun is burning hot, and there's little water. Yet, many plants do live in...
Plants of the rain forest community
rain forest community In a rain forest the trees are huge, and vines are as thick as a man's leg. Many people live in rain forests around the world. Life in the tropical rain forest Life is...
Where trees take lots of baths
Many kinds of trees grow best where it is always hot and where they get lots of shower baths from the rain. These trees live together in forests in hot parts of the world where it rains heavily all...
Plants of the northern forest community
Most trees in the northern \< forest are conifers---trees that have cones. > Plants of the northern forest community > bunchberry Life in the northern forest Evergreen trees grow close...
The Christmas trees’ home
In the northern parts of the world, winters are long and cold and summers are cool. This is where many of the trees people use as Christmas trees live. There are huge forests of spruce trees, fir...
Plants of the ocean community
Life in the ocean Diatoms are tiny plants that live in the ocean. They can be seen only with a microscope. Diatoms are green plants, and make their own food. Tiny, shrimplike copepods eat them....
Underwater forests and meadows
> ocean community Most ocean plants live in shallow water where they can get plenty of sunlight. Some plants live only in the salty water of the ocean. These plants live together in strange...
Plants of ponds, lakes, and rivers
Life in ponds, lakes, and rivers Plants that grow in and around ponds, lakes, and rivers give food and shelter to many animals. Grebes and other water birds use these plants to make nests....
Plants that like wet feet
Cats don't like wet feet. But the plants called cattails do. And so do many other kinds of plants. So these plants often live together in ponds, lakes, and rivers. Cattails, bulrushes, and bur reeds...