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World Builders™
World Builders™
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Session Five -- Links
Session Five -- Links
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Protists in the Water
Protists in the Water
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Explore the Oceans
A
United States
Geological Services
site about deep sea
vents. A good
introduction, with
pictures.
The
Ocean Adventure from The Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute will
take you on a great tour of the earth's
oceans. See chemosynthesizing creatures
around deep geothermal vents! This
is a great trip!
A very informative yet simple course on the oceans and their life forms by the Office of Naval Research.
Good resource if you are doing a unit on oceans.
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/
American
Museum of Natural History, Milstein
Hall of Ocean Life has a beautiful
extensive web site with dioramas,
ecosystems, and educational resources.
http://www.newpointcomfort.com/nature/nature_html/beach.html
The
Structure of Beaches: Very
helpful diagram and information..
Smithsonian's
Ocean Planet: a great museum exhibit with lots of information
about oceans and the life forms in them.
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Information
on Algae
This exceptional site will
give you an accessible and comprehensive introduction to
protists. Excellent pictures. Be sure to visit
this one!
- Introduction
to Algae An excellent net slide
show with clear, helpful information.
http://seaweed.ucg.ie/defaultmonday.html
Welcome to the Seaweed Beautiful
pictures at site are accompanied by
descriptions to tell you about red,
green, and brown seaweeds. Separate
picture section has breath-taking
but copyrighted photographs.
http://www.seaweed.ie/defaultthursday.html
The SeaWeed Site: Check the good
information by pressing the Teaching button.
There is good information on brown, red, and green seaweed.
Also look at the wonderful pictures!
http://www.algaebase.org
or
http://www.seaweed.ie
Many beautiful copyrighted pictures of algae.
Select Random Picture to enjoy them.
On-Site Statement: "The
images remain the property of the copyright owners who give
permission for non-commercial use for research or teaching
purposes, provided their copyright and the source is
acknowledged." Honor this generosity
with citations!
http://www.coralreefnetwork.com/marlife/stepath/Default.htm
Seaweeds
of Hawaii A beautiful
site. Copyrighted pictures of
many varieties of green. blue-green,
brown and red seaweeds with
descriptions. Respect copyright,
use for inspiration for your own
seaweeds!
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Images
- Seagrass:
information about sea grasses,
images, information, links. Great
photos! However,
keep in mind that sea
grasses are
terrestrial plants
that have returned to
the sea.
http://www.actwin.com/fish/pictures/tyree-pics.html
Coral
Photographs by Steve Tyree.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/exploring.html
- Deep
ocean vents and their life forms.
Good pictures.
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Ecology
Marine
Paleoecology:
This course has very
simple and easy to
understand
information on
conditions in the
ocean and the
effects of those
conditions on life
forms.
Excellent!
- SIMoN.
a Network that monitors the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary, provides pictures and information about the
different habitats in this sanctuary. Click on the links
on the left hand side of the page and enjoy this beautifully
presented information!
http://www.assateague.com/plants.html
- Assateague
Plant Communities
Small groups of plants from several
different biomes. Good information,
attractive presentation.
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http://tolweb.org/tree/
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- The
Tree of Life Phylogeny Project from
the University of Arizona.
A huge project showing the interelationships
of all life forms. Use the search box on the left of the page
to find the organism that you are studying..
http://www.abc.net.au/oceans/jewel/kelp/default.htm
Kelp Forests: Jewels of the Sea.
Kelp forests near Tasmania. Describes the forest levels
and their occupants.
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/kelpforest.html
Information and beautiful pictures of kelp forest.
Excellent!
http://www.oceanlight.com/html/kelp.html
More gorgeous kelp forest pictures.
Look, enjoy, please respect copyright.
http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_hp/hp_kelp_cam.asp
Kelp Cam at Monterey Aquarium. Live video of the sea life in the kelp forest.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
An On-Line Biology text book with lots of information.
http://www.oceanofk.org/tag/Tagmigrate/ddisttemp.html
Water
Temperatures in the ocean and how
the temperatures affect where the
sharks live. Interesting!
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Black Smokers
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Evolution
and Genetics
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Bio3900.htm
Principles
of Evolution Course by Dr Steven
M Carr at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Good course notes for the interested
reader.
http://www.amonline.net.au/exhibitions/dinosaur2.htm#top
- Evolution
from The Australian Museum Online discusses evolution under a set of headings.
If you like to sit down and read everything about a topic all together, try these pages.
They are well organized and suitable for the general reader.
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html
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Excellent
list of essays on Evolution.
http://www.janecky.com/runyen/cat.html
Slide
show on cat genetics, cat genetic
lab exercise, text information on
cat genetics and more! Teachers!!!
Check this out!! by Dr Nan Hampton
University of Texas at Austin,
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Museums
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/
The
Hunterian Museum of Glasgow
Take the virtual tour and click
on the map. You will see sections
on just what we are doing -- the
beginning of the earth and it's
life forms. It is similar, chapter
for chapter, to our assignments
-- don't miss this one!
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