Examines adaptations of animals that allow them to live in their environment, including ways to stay safe, get food, and reproduce.

Describes The Use Of Hooves And Claws Animals Use For Running, Hunting, Eating, Tearing, And Defense.

Examines adaptations of animals that allow them to live in their environment, including ways to stay safe, get food, and reproduce.

Looks at plants and the adaptations they use to get water, stay safe, and make new plants.

Introduction to ways that species have adapted over time to differing environments.

On This Spot… See buildings soar and traffic zoom, a kaleidoscope of color and movement. Now turn the page and time-travel back 175 years, where on the same spot carriages bumped and pigs raced across cobblestones. Turn again and go back 400 years to when a Lenape Indian trail crossed the spot. Now travel farther still, to when glaciers crept . . . dinosaurs preyed . . . a tropical sea teemed with ancient creatures . . . back 540 million years, when rock was all you could see. What happened on this spot? What will happen next? Look out your window. What happened on that spot?

Photographs provide examples of human inventions that have been borrowed from nature, and readers are asked to guess the connection with nature before turning the page to see the answer.