City fish, country fish : how fish adapt to tropical seas and cold oceans

Resource Information

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Label

City fish, country fish : how fish adapt to tropical seas and cold oceans

Title remainder

how fish adapt to tropical seas and cold oceans

Statement of responsibility

Mary M. Cerullo ; photography by Jefffrey L. Rotman

Title variation

How fish adapt to tropical seas and cold oceans

Creator

• trueCerullo, Mary M

Contributor

• Rotman, Jeffrey L.

Author

• trueCerullo, Mary M

Illustrator

• Rotman, Jeffrey L.

Subject

• Coral reef fishes -- Juvenile literature
• Instructional and educational works
• Juvenile works
• Marine fishes
• trueMarine fishes
• Marine fishes -- Cold regions -- Juvenile literature
• Cold regions
• Coral reef fishes

Genre

• Juvenile works
• Juvenile literature
• Instructional and educational works

Language

eng

Summary

Compares and contrasts tropical coral reef fishes and temperate climate fishes, using the differences between city dwellers and country dwellers as an analogy to describe fish from the two bioregions. Fish that live in warmer tropical seas are like city dwellers, packed into reefs and surrounded by life in great variety and urgent motion, day and night. Through color, shape, size, and other adaptations, city fish and country fish have evolved to survive in their particular habitats. That powerful analogy and vibrant underwater photos captivate young readers with the wild variety of ocean life. The second edition of this popular book includes new information about the effects of climate change on fish and their habitats and about great white sharks, who are among the few species who roam back and forth between cold and tropical waters

Member of

• trueHow nature works

Cataloging source

IMD

Dewey number

597.17/789

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• Middle School
• 1100

Intended audience source

Lexile

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

• 6.4.
• 10.0.

Series statement

A How nature works book

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!

Target audience

juvenile