The Green Giants--The Story of Plants
- Date
1957
- Summary
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Today beneath our feet we find dwarf plants which once were green giants of the Coal Age. We may hold a fossil in our hands of a plant that live 250,000,000 years ago, yet looked very much like a fern of today. The club mosses, horsetails and ferns, mostly miniature plants in northern forests, once grew to be 60-1000 feet tall in the warm, damp climate of the Carboniferous Period. Out of a terrarium, which you might set up in your living room, will unfold this story of a past age of plant life. You will find out how these simple plants reproduce by spores, and you’ll learn how to keep them in a miniature world.
- Contributors
Mary Lela Grimes; Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council; Children's Museum of Boston; Massachusetts Audubon Society; Robert Larsen; Betty Sears; WGBH-TV
- Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
- Genres
Educational; Nature
- Subject
Plants ; Fossils.
- Collection
National Educational Television
- Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- No Copyright - United States
- Other Identifiers
Other: GR00457581; MDPI Barcode: 40000003187228; MDPI Barcode: 40000003220755
Access Restrictions
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