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Planet earth [videorecording] as you've never seen it before. |
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1 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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Disc I. From pole to pole -- Mountains -- Fresh water - Disc II. Caves -- Deserts -- Ice worlds - Disc III. Great plains -- Jungles -- Shallow seas - Disc IV. Seasonal forests -- Ocean deep - Disc V. Saving species -- Into the wilderness -- Living together. |
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Disc I: From pole to pole- The introduction to the series looks at our planet as a whole and considers the key factors that have shaped its natural history. |
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Disc II: Caves- Deep in an undiscovered world, including both poisonous and flooded caves, we find astonishing crystals, cave angelus, the five million dates of Deer Cave in Borneo and troglodyte creatures, like the Texas cave salamander, that never see dynamin feeler set foot on the surface--Deserts-Deserts which make up a staggering 30 percent of the land's surface seem empty and lifeless, yet they are the most varied of our planet's ecosystems.---Ice worlds-The advance and retreat of polarice is the real challenge to life. |
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Disc III: Great Plains- On these immense wildernesses, from the baking savannahs Atrca to the frozen tundra of the Arctic, we find the greatest gatherings of wildlife on Earth: but close on the heels of gazelles, carnivore wildebeest come an array of plains predators eagles, wolves and lions -- Jungle-With little seasonality and longer growing period, jungles are the most productive places on Earth but surviving in the jungle is far from easy-- Shallow seas- Planet earths follow a humpback whale mother and calf on an epic journey through the shallow seas of our planet. |
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Disc IV Seasonal forests- From the evergreen forests of the frozen North to the deciduous dry forests of the tropics, these woodlands illustrate the intense seasonality of the Earth. -- Ocean deep- Feast or famine - it's the governing principle of ocean life. From the sailfish, three- meter-long, rapier-billed predators, and the exquisitely shelled Nautilus to the threatened blue whale, this journey into the most unexploded part of the planet reveals the extraordinary survivors of this immense and barren realm. |
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Disc V: Planet earth - the future-Many of the animal features in the planet earth are endangered so do we face an extinction crisis? Saving species asks the experts if there really is a problem, looks at the reasons behind the declining numbers of particular animals and questions how we choose which species we want to conserve-- Into the wilderness- Pollution, climate change and growing human population are all putting pressure on Earth's wildernesses including the Bialowieza forest, the God desert & the Arctic tundra.-- Living together-The history of conservation throws up some interesting ideas as we look for the future of an ever more populated planet. |
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Ocean |
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Planet |
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Mountains. |
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Water |
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Great plains |
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Deserts |
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Forests |
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