Beneath the Waves: Celebrating the Ocean Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS Beneath Waves the CELEBRATING THE OCEAN THROUCH PICTURES POEMS AND STORIES STEPHANIE WARREN DRIMMER NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WASHINGTON D.C.
contents Foreword by Brian Skerry Introduction Beneath the Waves In the Zones On the beach Sea Shell Secrets of the Shell Feeling Crabby What Is the Beach Tiny Turtles Hide-and-Seek Beach Birds Why Is the Ocean Salty BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The Swimming Lizard Smooth by Sea Lumbering on Land From Sky to Sea Where Rivers Meet the Sea Strong Roots Epic Reptile Fish Out of Water The Walking Whale WADING IN The Snail A Shell-tered Life No Bones About It The Rainbow Colored Slug Mussels and Their Cousins Crustacean Nation The Myth of Mermaids 6 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 33 34 36 37 38 40 42 44 46 47 48 50 51 52 54 REEF LIFE Amazing Ecosystem A World Without Color The Inflatable Fish Water Wings Reef Besties The Great Barrier Reef Reef Fish Big Bite The Snake That Swims Sea Scrub Rainbow Colored Romantic OCEAN FORESTS Eel Grass Underwater Meadows Food of the Sea A Different Kind of Dragon One Stylish Crab Master of Disguise Super Spiny Urchin Eaters Creatures of the Kelp Remarkable Waters Forecasting the Red Tide 56 58 59 60 61 62 64 66 68 69 70 72 74 76 77 78 80 81 82 84 85 86 88 90
THE OPEN OCEAN The Biggest Animal Ever Tiny but Mighty No Brain No Problem Swim Team Quick Change Artists Hunter or Hunted Smart Swimmer Life in the Open Ocean The Search for Longitude ON THE MOVE Homeward Bound Ocean Hunters Ocean Voyagers Hitchhikers of the Sea Mighty Movers Winging It Migration Mysteries LIFE ON THE ICY EDGE A Penguin Cold Weather Experts The Deal With Seals King of the North Ocean Hunters Unicorns of the Sea Chilly Swimmers Arctic Experts 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 105 106 108 110 112 114 116 118 120 122 124 126 128 129 130 132 134 135 136 138 DEEP DOWN Adventures Down Below Go With the Glow What’s Glowing On The Twilight Zone The Midnight Zone Call It an Aww-ctopus The Living Fossil Lured In Deep-Sea Sharks The Voyage to the Bottom EXTREME OCEAN The Myth of the Kraken Undersea Mountains Life at the Limits Second Life Mapping the Ocean Floor PEOPLE AND OCEANS Into the Unknown Why the Ocean Matters Our Changing Seas Protecting Marine Places Saving Sharks An Interview With Marine Conservationist Jess Cramp Ocean of Plastic Turning the Tide Afterword by Sylvia A Earle Scientific Names of Ocean Life Index Photo Credits 140 142 143 144 146 148 150 151 152 154 156 158 160 162 164 166 168 170 172 174 176 178 180 182 184 186 188 189 191
