Desert Food Webs in Action

Children's Book and Media Review, Oct 2017

Despite how barren the desert may appear on the surface, there are many plants and animals who live there and go unnoticed. These plants and animals rely on each other for food in the desert. Deserts do not have much water, so the plants and animals that live there must learn how to adapt. Desert plants get energy from the sun and adapt to store water. Herbivores get energy and water from the plants when they eat them. Carnivores also receive energy when they eat other animals. Decomposers get energy and nutrients from dead plants and animals.

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Desert Food Webs in Action

Desert Food Webs in Action Ariel Woodbury 0 0 Thi s Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Children's Book and Media Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information , please contact Follow this and additional works at; http; //scholarsarchive; byu; edu/cbmr - Book Review Review Despite how barren the desert may appear on the surface, there are many plants and animals who live there and go unnoticed. These plants and animals rely on each other for food in the desert. Deserts do not have much water, so the plants and animals that live there must learn how to adapt. Desert plants get energy from the sun and adapt to store water. Herbivores get energy and water from the plants when they eat them. Carnivores also receive energy when they eat other animals. Decomposers get energy and nutrients from dead plants and animals. There are some features that are really well done in this book. For instance, the author is very good at emphasizing that the energy from the sun (that feeds the plants which in turn feed the animals) is the same energy when it reaches decomposers at the bottom of the food chain. The sentences were simple and short, perfect for young readers. However, many of the paragraphs do not flow smoothly and have to be read multiple times to understand what the author is trying to express. This may trip up readers and distract from their learning experience. *Contains some pictures of dead animals and other animals eating each other. (...truncated)


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Ariel Woodbury. Desert Food Webs in Action, Children's Book and Media Review, 2017, Volume 38, Issue 9,