Discover Chesapeake Bay

Author : Leah Kaminski
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 1534160701
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discover Chesapeake Bay written by Leah Kaminski and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Chesapeake Bay takes readers to the water's edge, where they will learn about the bay's atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. These four very different systems create a unique environment in and around Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Readers will experience 200 miles of shoreline teeming with more than 3,600 species of animals and plants. Colorful maps, diagrams, and photos provide a close-up view of Chesapeake Bay. Book is aligned to curriculum standards and includes sidebar, activity, glossary, index, and additional resources.

Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080187517X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Chesapeake written by Philip D. Curtin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rich evolutionary record of natural systems and long history of human activity, the Chesapeake Bay provides an excellent example of how a great estuary has responded to the powerful forces of human settlement and environmental change. Discovering the Chesapeake explores all of the long-term changes the Chesapeake has undergone and uncovers the inextricable connections among land, water, and humans in this unusually delicate ecosystem. Edited by a historian, a paleobiologist, and a geologist at the Johns Hopkins University and written for general readers, the book brings together experts in various disciplines to consider the truly complex and interesting environmental history of the Chesapeake and its watershed. Chapters explore a variety of topics, including the natural systems of the watershed and their origins; the effects of human interventions ranging from Indian slash-and-burn practices to changing farming techniques; the introduction of pathogens, both human and botanical; the consequences of the oyster's depletion; the response of bird and animal life to environmental factors introduced by humans; and the influence of the land and water on the people who settled along the Bay. Discovering the Chesapeake, originating in two conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation, achieves a broad historical and scientific appreciation of the various processes that shaped the Chesapeake region. "Today's Chesapeake Bay is only some ten thousand years old. What a different world it was . . . when the region was the home of the ground sloth, giant beaver, dire wolf, mastodon, and other megafauna. In the next few thousand years, the ice may form again and the Bay will once more be the valley of the Susquehanna, unless, of course, human-induced changes in climate create some other currently unpredictable condition."—from the Introduction

Author : Philip D. Curtin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801864682
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Chesapeake written by Philip D. Curtin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the Chesapeake explores all of the long-term changes the Chesapeake has undergone and uncovers the inextricable connections among land, water, and humans in this unusually delicate ecosystem.

Author : David Owen Bell
Publisher : Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780870336058
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awesome Chesapeake written by David Owen Bell and published by Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEOPLE SWIMMING OR WADIND IN SHALLOW WATER USUSALLY DON'T GIVE MUCH THOUGHT TO THE LIFE AROUND THEM UNTIL THEY FEEL A LIGHT AND QUICK NIBBLE ON THE TOE OR THE STING OF A SEA NETTLE ON THE LEG. SHALLOW WATER CAN BE FULL OF LIVING THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE THEY ARE SMALL, QUICK, TRANSPARENT, OR CAMOUFLAGED. SHRIMP, CLAMS, SNAILS, AND SCHOOLS OF TINY FISH ARE COMMON.

Author : Kathleen Connors
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433997916
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visiting the Chesapeake Bay written by Kathleen Connors and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region around the Chesapeake Bay is growing every year. Industries such as seafood and manufacturing contribute to the economy, but tourism continues to be big business for cities near the bay. Readers will visit the active inner harbor of Baltimore, Maryland, and the beautiful beaches of Virginia through vivid photographs and concise descriptions of their famous landmarks and historic sites. With an introduction to the Chesapeake Bay through some of its biggest attractions, readers will encounter the region’s geography, wildlife, and history, adding to curriculum learning. Detailed sidebars will offer fun facts, population statistics, and present even more places to explore around the Chesapeake Bay.

Author : Bryan MacKay
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409399
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year Across Maryland written by Bryan MacKay and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you want to see snow geese and trumpeter swans pausing in their northward migration each March, or the mating jubileeof polychaete worms during the new moon in May, A Year across Maryland offers valuable advice for the spontaneous adventurer and the serious planner alike.

Author : Chesapeake Bay Program (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of the Chesapeake Bay written by Chesapeake Bay Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Page Williams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200694
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake written by John Page Williams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated, informative, and inviting book intertwines two fascinating stories of discovery. The first, among the earliest classics of New World adventure, recounts Captain John Smith's exploration of Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago; the second revisits this stunning landscape as it is today--both to showcase its still-unspoiled splendors and to issue a timely warning of looming threats to its vibrant but fragile ecology. Dozens of dazzling full-color contemporary photographs evoke the Chesapeake spirit in all its many moods, while a wonderfully wide-ranging selection of archival images span the four centuries since John Smith first sailed, rowed, and wandered its woods and waterways, mapping the wilderness shores of an untamed America. The author, a veteran naturalist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, has spent decades leading tours and teaching classes about the region. An ideal guide, he shares both his delight in the Bay's glorious diversity and his deep concern for its future. In addition, his unique blend of experience, environmental sensitivity, and historical expertise offers modern visitors a rare opportunity to discover the Chesapeake as Smith did so long ago, leaving beaten paths and familiar waters behind to learn why Congress will soon designate it as the first of America's official National Historic Water Trails. For history buffs, conservationists, armchair travelers, tourists planning a trip, and anyone who simply loves first-rate nature photography, this beautiful book more than meets the high standard readers have come to expect from National Geographic.

Author : Allison Blake
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581578350
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide Baltimore, Annapolis & The Chesapeake Bay: A Great Destination (Explorer's Great Destinations) written by Allison Blake and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the Chesapeake Bay, with a new focus on Baltimore, Annapolis, and Maryland's portion of the Bay area! Once again, travel writer and longtime maryland resident Allison Blake surveys the Chesapeake Bay area and its distinctive lodgings, aquatic adventures, and tucked-away towns. In Explorer's Guide Baltimore, Annapolis & The Chesapeake Bay: A Great Destination, the new version of her well-loved guidebook The Chesapeake Bay Book, Blake has also thoroughly explored from Baltimore (the colorful old port city that anchors the northern end of the Bay), to Maryland's 300-year old capital, Annapolis (known as America's Sailing Capital), south to the Potomac River and the Eastern Shore and onto the Virginia border. This is Maryland's Chesapeake Bay plus iconic Tangier Island, located in Virginia. This expansive guide will give visitors and residents alike all the information they need to fully explore and enjoy the thousands of miles of shoreline, the towns and cities, and the adjoining countryside of this lovely and historically significant area. Whether you're interested in urban or outdoors adventures, oysters in a chic bistro of famous Maryland blue crabs on a paper-covered picnic table, pursuits like hiking, biking, boating, museum-hopping, or relaxing on a beach, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay has everything you're looking for. As in every Explorer's Great Destinations title, you’ll find helpful information for lodging, dining, shopping, transportation, recreational activities, and special events. The focused and very helpful "If Time Is Short" advice, historical notes, and many maps and photographs make this an indispensable guide. Use it to help you discover all the Chesapeake region has to offer. Includes: history, lodging, dining, culture, recreation, shopping, transportation and more! Previous editions of this guide were published under the title The Chesapeake Bay Book.

Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : Cherry Lake
ISBN 13 : 1624310613
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chesapeake Bay written by Katie Marsico and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding area.