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Title	Author	# of Pages
The Pond	Gerald Thompson, Jennifer Coldrey, & George Bernard	256

Contents

Naming and classifying animals and plants    (p. 12)
The world of the pond    (p. 13)
Survival in the pond - plants    (p. 25)
Pond plants and plant communities    (p. 33)
    Swamp zone    (p. 35)
    Floating-leaf and emergent zone    (p. 48)
    Submerged plant zone    (p. 54)
    Free-floating plant zone    (p. 60)
    Algae    (p. 67)
    Fungi    (p. 76)
    Bacteria    (p. 76)

Survival in the pond - animals    (p. 79)
Pond animals    (p. 85)
    Protozoa    (p. 86)
    Sponges    (p. 94)
    Hydra and its relatives    (p. 95)
    Roundworms    (p. 99)
    Hairworms    (p. 100)
    Wheel animals    (p. 102)
    Hairy-backs    (p. 104)
    Moss animals    (p. 104)
    Snails, limpets, and mussels    (p. 106)
    Water bears    (p. 112)
    True worms    (p. 113)
    Spiders, mites, crustaceans, insects    (p. 120)
    The vertebrates    (p. 198)
Studying pond life    (p. 236)
Glossary    (p. 238)
Classification tables    (p. 243)
Index    (p. 251)
Further reading    (p. 256)
Photographic acknowledgments    (p. 256)