Cover of Cartoon Guide to the Environment

Cartoon Guide to the Environment

Book 49 of the Ke xue tian di = -- World of science series

Do you think that the Ozone Hole is a grunge rock club? Or that the Food Web is an on-line restaurant guide? Or that the Green Revolution happened in Greenland? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to the Environmentto put you on the road to environmental literacy. The Cartoon Guide to the Environmentcovers the main topics of environmental science: chemical cycles, life communities, food webs, agriculture, human population growth, sources of energy and raw materials, waste disposal and recycling, cities, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and global warming—and puts them in the context of ecology, with discussions of population dynamics, thermodynamics, and the behavior of complex systems.

Subject
science
Themes
environmentnature
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages
Form
graphic novels

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