Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef: ... to find out how it works!
- ISBN10: 1526327163
- ISBN13: 9781526327161
- Author: Chris Oxlade
- Illustrator: Sean O'Brien
- Format: Hardback
- Published: 14/08/2025
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Peel back, take apart, reassemble and enjoy the awesome science of a coral reef!
Inside Info: Taking Apart a Coral Reef is full of all the most colourful, microscopic and surprising features of a coral reef. Picking apart the built-up layers of this beautiful biome - the tough coral skeleton and the delicate polyp structures - and uncovering the reef's many inhabitants, we get to know the pieces and partnerships that make a coral reef so vital to our oceans. Finally, see how it all goes back together as a symbiotic whole, and learn the science of saving reefs around the world.
Contents include: Welcome to the coral reef / Under the surface / Coral polyps / Stingers and algae / Reef growers / Life on the reef / Fish around the reef / Nooks and crannies / Camouflage / Colours and patterns / Predators / Building up a reef / Reefs in danger (bleaching, invasive species, climate change)
Inside Info is a stylish and engrossing series of books diving into the layers of things kids are curious about - giving them the chance to pull it all apart and put it back together again, while learning STEM fundamentals! Full of cross-sections, cutaways, exploded diagrams, labels, jokes and easter-egg details for the curious reader aged 7+ to discover.
The series presents the Inside Info of:
Supercars, A Rocket, A Rollercoaster, A T. rex, The Human Body and A Coral Reef