Life science through infographics

Nadia Higgins

Book - 2014

"Absorbing facts about the 11.3 million species on Earth might cause your brain to burst! You need to take in huge timelines (the first life on Earth formed 3.8 billion years ago), huge numbers (your body is made up of trillions of cells), and even huger mysteries (why species go extinct). How can all these big numbers and concepts make more sense? Infographics! The charts, maps, and illustrations in this book tell a visual story to help you to better understand key concepts about life science. Crack open this book to explore mind-boggling questions such as: how do organisms evolve over millions of years? How does DNA determine what you will look like? Why are so many species struggling to survive today? The answers are sure to be life... expanding!"--Back cover.

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Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : Lerner Publications ©2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Nadia Higgins (-)
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
ISBN
9781467712880
9781467715928
  • Introduction: Life-A-Whirl
  • Organisms Rule!
  • Party, Evolution Style
  • Rock Stars
  • Our World's Worlds
  • Thank You, DNA
  • Let's Get Microscopic
  • Amazing Bods
  • The Circle of Life
  • Eat and Eaten
  • The Wow-o-Meter of Life
  • The Bad News
  • 10 Ways to Live Green
  • Glossary
  • Further Information
  • Index
Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-5-A well-designed infographic simultaneously conveys facts and presents their interrelationships in visual ways. With but rare exceptions (such as a graph of multiple star characteristics in Solar System, a representation of the water cycle in Weather, and the occasional pie chart elsewhere), the silhouettes and other figures in these volumes may be done in a pictorial graphic style but are really just illustrations or images inserted to add visual interest. However, each title does offer sheaves of basic information in particularly concentrated form, including topic-expanding closing spreads ("10 Ways to Live Green" in Life Science, for instance), and the resources lists are above average. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Horn Book Review

Major concepts in biology and ecology are reduced to several short, oversimplified factual statements on brightly colored spreads dominated by graphical illustrations, many of which are difficult to interpret without prior knowledge of the content. Topics ranging from earth biomes to DNA and food webs to environmental conservation are poorly organized or not well supported with explanations. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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