Life on Intertidal Rocks: A Guide to the Marine Life of the Rocky North Atlantic Coast

by Cherie H. Day

Book Overview

Easily Identify the Living Things You Find on Intertidal Rocks

Enjoy learning to identify marine life on the rocky north Atlantic coast with this pocket-size field guide from author Cherie Hunter Day. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of living things in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting into your pocket or pack when you go for a walk along the rocky coast.

Features:
Identifies plants and animals that live in the intertidal zone of the rocky coast, from Cape Cod north to the Bay of Fundy Explores and provides information about the specific and unique life that thrives in tide pools, caves, and crevices, as well as on rocks, wharves, and pilings Explains intertidal ecology and how these fascinating and varied creatures--sea slugs, crabs, rockweeds, star fish, and many others--survive in the harsh and ever-changing environment between the limits of high and low tide

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912550155
• ISBN13: 9780912550152
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Nature Study Guild Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 3.9"
• Age Range: 10 years and up