Index, The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth

Amazon rainforest, 2.1, 5.1

Andes, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Antarctica, 7.1, 7.2

bacteria, fm.1, fm.2

barn swallow, 3.1, 5.1

Batagaika crater

Benguela Current

biodiversity, fm.1, 10.1

biomes

carbon cycle, 9.1, 10.1

carbon footprint, reducing

cities, fm.1, 10.1

climate change (global warming), 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 10.1

commensalism

communities, definition of

competition

deforestation, 2.1, 10.1

desertification, 5.1, 10.1

deserts

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Dust Bowl, 1.1, 10.1

Earle, Sylvia

Earth

interdependence of life on, fm.1, fm.2

protecting, fm.1, 10.1

Eastern Mongolian Steppes

ecological organization, levels of

ecosystems

definition of, fm.1, fm.2

healthy, fm.1, fm.2

elephants, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

emus

energy

flow of

from fossil fuels, 10.1, 10.2

renewable

from the sun, fm.1, fm.2

farming, 10.1, 10.2

fertilizers, 9.1, 10.1

flamingos

flooding

Florida mangrove swamp

flower kingdoms

fog oases

food security

food web, fm.1, fm.2, 9.1

fossil fuels, 10.1, 10.2

glaciers, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

global warming. See climate change

Gondwana, 6.1, 7.1

Great Barrier Reef, 4.1, 6.1

Great Basalt Wall

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

grouse, 1.1, 3.1

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

horses, wild

humans

achievements of

evolution of

impact of, on nature, fm.1, 10.1

Huon pine tree

iguanas

Inca Empire

individual, definition of

lakes, 8.1, 9.1

light pollution, 2.1, 10.1

living things

classification of

interactions of

manatees, 1.1, 2.1

mangroves, 1.1, 4.1

Mariana Trench

Mars Rover

marsupials, 6.1, 6.2

McMurdo research station

mountains

Andes, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

North Pole, 7.1, 7.2

oceans

overfishing, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2

overharvesting

Pampas, 2.1, 2.2

parasitism

peat bogs

penguins, 5.1, 7.1

permafrost, 4.1, 10.1

phosphorus cycle

photosynthesis, 9.1, 9.2

phytoplankton, fm.1, 7.1, 8.1

pink Amazon River dolphin

pioneer species

plants

poaching, 5.1, 5.2

polar bears, 7.1, 10.1

pollution, 8.1, 10.1

ponds

population, definition of

potatoes

predation

primary succession, fm.1, fm.2

pronghorn

radio telescopes

rainforests

Amazon, 2.1, 5.1

resource partitioning

rhea, greater

rhinoceroses, 4.1, 5.1

savannas

secondary succession, fm.1, fm.2

Serengeti National Park

Siberia

soil erosion

South America

South Pole, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

sun, energy from, fm.1, fm.2

trophic levels, fm.1, fm.2

Virunga National Park

volcanoes, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2

water