Taking Apart a Coral Reef

Taking Apart a Coral Reef

by Chris Oxlade and Sean O'Brien
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/08/2025

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Peel back, take apart, reassemble and enjoy the awesome science of a coral reef!


Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef is full of all the most colourful, microscopic and surprising features of a coral reef. Picking apart the built-up layers of this beautiful biome - the tough coral skeleton and the delicate polyp structures - and uncovering the reef's many inhabitants, we get to know the pieces and partnerships that make a coral reef so vital to our oceans. Finally, see how it all goes back together as a symbiotic whole, and learn the science of saving reefs around the world.


Contents include: Welcome to the coral reef / Under the surface / Coral polyps / Stingers and algae / Reef growers / Life on the reef / Fish around the reef / Nooks and crannies / Camouflage / Colours and patterns / Predators / Building up a reef / Reefs in danger (bleaching, invasive species, climate change)


Inside Info is a stylish and engrossing series of books diving into the layers of things kids are curious about - giving them the chance to pull it all apart and put it back together again, while learning STEM fundamentals! Full of cross-sections, cutaways, exploded diagrams, labels, jokes and easter-egg details for the curious reader aged 7+ to discover.


The series presents the Inside Info of:

Supercars, A Rocket, A Rollercoaster, A T. rex, The Human Body and A Coral Reef

ISBN:
9781526327154
9781526327154
Category:
Science & technology: general interest (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-08-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
Chris Oxlade

Chris Oxlade is the best-selling author of more than 150 non-fiction books for schools, libraries and the book trade. Much of his work has involved explaining technical subjects clearly for young readers.

Available for download after 14/08/2025

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