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Whether they crawl, fly, run, or hitch a ride, animals move around. Animals move to get food, to escape from being another animal's food, to find mates, to find a home, and to just plain survive. Animals have developed all sorts of different ways to get their rears in gear.
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"Thousands of earthquakes happen each year and Bill Nye the Science Guy trembles in his boots when he explains what causes them. In Earthquakes, find out what makes big pieces of the Earth's crust (the plates) move and what you should have on hand in case of a quake"--Container.
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It doesn't have to be Halloween for the Science Guy to bone up on the things that give the body its shape and movement. In BONES & MUSCLES, Bill muscles in to give more than just the bare bones about x-rays, the healing of broken bones, bone marrow, and the body's joints.
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"Join Bill as he explores the ... world of caves! In Caves, you never know what kind of living things you'll run into. Surviving in complete darkness requires an array of natural adaptations. Caves have their own unique forms of life -- it's a whole different world where the sun doesn't shine"--Container.
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"Follow Bill Nye in Forests, when he goes swinging through the trees in Washington, Florida, Texas, and California, to bring viewers close to the tallest and possibly oldest living things in the world. Examine a real forest fire to see how it benefits a forest's ecosystem"--Container.
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Bill Nye, the Science Guy goes underwater to talk about ocean ecosystems and the importance of small organisms such as coral, kelp and plankton. Amazingly, these latter organisms are the food of huge whales, which gather them by straining thousands of tons of sea water through their mouths.
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"In Storms, see what happens when huge masses of air collide. Destructive or not, storms benefit us. The tropical regions of the Earth would be too hot to inhabit--and the subpolar regions too cold -- if we didn't have hurricanes and typhoons to distribute the Earth's heat so efficiently."--Container.
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In ROCKS & SOIL, Bill unearths the hard facts on volcanoes, landslides, tectonic plates, rivers, weather, and their varied effects on the creaton of rocks and soil. Check out how to unearth fossils and sedimentary rocks and soil and discover why there's a piece of quartz in watches.