| View Larger Image | Sea Soup: Zooplankton | Hardcoverby Mary M. Cerullo (Author), Bill Curtsinger (Illustrator), Bill Curtsinger (Illustrator)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Tilbury House Publishers | | Page Count: | 40 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 01, 2001 | | Sales Rank: | 716,603th |
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Product Description
A teaspoon of sea water can hold a soupy serving of a million zooplankton! These tiny animals often look like weird life forms from outer space or larger animals such as jellyfish. In this newest volume (another volume: Sea Soup: Phytoplankton was published in December 1999), Mary Cerullos text answers intriguing questions about these tiny animals that have shaped our world, while Bill Curtsingers extraordinary photomicroscopy serves up tantalizing images of this sea soup. Many of the photos for these books were taken at Maines Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science and the Darling Marine Center, using an Axiophot 2 research microscope donated by Carl Zeiss, Inc. This book has an accompanying teacher's guide: Sea Soup Teachers Guide: Discovering the Watery World of Phytoplankton and Zooplankton |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 1 review)
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Engaging and captivating by Bri Meets Books (USA)  4 Stars
September 29, 2009
Sea Soup: Zooplankton introduces readers to the various forms of the organism. From the moment you open this book, stunning underwater images greet you. The layout is very attractive, and catches your eye immediately. There's splashes of color, vibrant photos in bubbles, but it still flows well, so you get all the information at an easy pace.
The opening starts off as if fiction and the letters cascade down the side of the page, a visual representation of a diver's descent down below:
"The moment they dropped into the dark,alien world, the searchers knew they were not alone. - (p.2, Sea Soup: Zooplankton)
The book talks directly to the reader, asking questions, inviting the reader to explore the world of the zooplankton. On one page, it's stark white, and in the middle, a bright colorful photo of a a jellyfish and the text, "Who's who in a zoo plankton zoo?" or "Are there zooplankton you don't ever want to bump into?" The corresponding pages then answer the question. This theme continues throughout the book, always engaging the reader into a discussion.
Reference wise, Sea Soup: Zooplankton packs a lot into a thin book. Sizes, their diets, the life cycles, and the various types of zooplankton are covered. Prior to reading this book, my plankton knowledge involved Spongebob Squarepants, and this book definitely filled in the gaps. There's a glossary and even an additional teacher's guide available from the publisher, for those who want more information.
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| Sea Soup: Phytoplankton
by Mary M. Cerullo (Author), Bill Curtsinger (Illustrator), Bill Curtsinger (Illustrator)
A teaspoon of sea water can hold a soupy serving of a million phytoplankton! These tiny floating plants come in thousands of amazing variations. Invisible to the naked eye, phytoplankton are the source of our atmosphere, our climate, our ocean food chain, much of our oil supply, and more. Theyre also food for zooplankton, tiny animals that often look like weird life forms from outer space. In this volume (another volume: Sea Soup: Zooplankton will be available in Fall 2000), Mary Cerullos...
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| Sea Soup Teacher¹s Guide: Discovering the Watery World of Phytoplankton and Zooplankton
by Betsy T. Stevens (Author), Rosemary Giebfried (Author)
The interesting and fun activities in this teachers guide meet the challenge of relating tiny, microscopic organisms to the lives of children. Discover and explore answers to some strange questions. What is the recipe for Sea Soup? Are those tiny critters plants or animals, or maybe something else? Why do they look more like creatures from outer space than the organisms we know on land? What do giant clams, corals, whales, penguins, and humans have in common? How does the Sea Soup grow? What if...
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| Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology
by William S. Johnson (Author), Dennis M. Allen (Author), Marni Fylling (Illustrator)
William S. Johnson and Dennis M. Allen provide a complete guide to estuarine and coastal zooplankton in North America and the first comprehensive guide to the zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The scholarly treatment presents technical information in a user-friendly format that facilitates rapid and positive identification. Coverage includes most common zooplankton (and many phytoplankton) of this region. The authors provide detailed instructions for identifying taxa as well as...
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| Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae
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