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World Builders™
World Builders™
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Session Seven -- Links
Session Seven -- Links
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Ecologies in the Water
Ecologies in the Water
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Ecosystems
http://www.resa.net/nasa/antarctica.htm
- Life
in Extreme Environments: Antarctica
Learn about the environment
of a cold desert, and animal and
plant adaptations. This introduction
has an excellent description of
the ecosystem of this cold area.
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
- Tree
of Life Project Learn how
to show relationships among your
life forms. A fascinating site.
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/acebasin/specgal/birds.htm
This
Species Gallery is divided into
birds, fish, mammals, plants,
reptiles and invertebrates.
Each listed life form page contains
a picture, information about the
life form, and a description of
how it fits into the ecology of
its biome. This is a very
nice site to visit with your students!
http://www.oceansonline.com/lib_bio_ocean.htm
An on line library about Biological
Oceanography. Check
this page for the subjects that
you are wondering about: topics
include many marine life forms,
their evolution, the deep sea,
the seasons of the sea, food chains,
etc.
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Coral/home.html
Corals
and Coral Reefs: Good
information on Coral adaptations
and reef ecology
http://www.inchinapinch.com/hab_pgs/marine/coral_reef/
Coral
Reefs: pictures and information
about plants and animals on reefs.
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Special Relationships
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/S/Symbiosis.html
Excellent
paper explains symbiosis, mutualism,
parasitism and commensalism, and
give helpful examples. Read this
for a clear understanding of these
types of interspecies cooperation.
http://library.thinkquest.org/25713/corals.html
The Coral Realm is a wonderful Thinkquest web
site that has a wealth of information about corals and coral reefs.
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/students/coral/coral3.htm
Ocean
world: Coral Reef Symbiosis:
Explains symbiosis using
the example of corals and the
algae that live in them. Good
pictures and a short, clear description.
You can share this with your students!
http://www1.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/units/symbiosis/intro.htm
Research
on Symbiosis in Animals at York.
This paper describes symbiosis,
especially with microbes. There
is a paragraph on coral, which
harbors algae, but expels them
if the water temperature rises.
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Images
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/photos/lineart/
NOAA
Line Art: This
is just a listing of jpeg files.
Click on some of them to see the
pictures. These drawings
might be good for some of your
experiments in changing the shapes
of life forms.
http://www.seasky.org/sea7.html
The
Ocean Realm: Reef Life:
Tour a coral reef and
see many pictures of the animals
that live there.
Monsters of the Deep:
Take a tour to the bottom
of the ocean and search for strange
animals there. Both tours
are outstanding.
http://www.orst.edu/instruct/fw316/markle/fishimages.html
Fish
World! This collection
of images was made for a class
about fishes. It gives you
an idea of the shapes that fishes
can be. It's a real eye-opener!
http://www.bobber.com/fishart1.html
Corky's
Fun Fishing Pages: There's
a good collection of realistic
clipart images of fishes here.!
http://www.livingreefimages.com/index(c).html
Beautiful photographs of many
different kinds of marine
invertebrates will give you some
inspiration on body forms for
your animals!
http://ebiomedia.com/gall/larvae/larva1.html
Babes in the Sea (Larvae
of Marine Animals). This
site has lovely photographs of
baby marine animals. Click
on a picture and it will tell
you and show you what the adult
looks like. Will you be
able to guess which animals are
the parents?
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Evolution and
Adaptation
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160/06_adaptive.html
Part
of a Biology Course: a very
nice page on adaptive radiation
and evolution.
http://www.fishid.com/learnctr/fish.htm
Pictures
of groups of sea animals:
Note how members of related species
resemble each other. They
have descended from the same ancestors
and adapted to fit into different
niches in the biome.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
Evolution:
A PBS mulatimedia
site provides information about
this process.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/E/Evolution.html
Evolution
and Adaptation:
This page explains the concepts
clearly, and defines such important
words as fitness, speciation,
and natural selection.
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Food Webs and
Energy Pyramids
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm
Gould
Food Webs for Kids: Completion
game for food webs for several
ecosystems. Move the pictures
to the correct squares on line.
Fun!
http://www.oceansonline.com/oceanicfoodwebs.htm
Oceanic
Food Webs, pictures, polar
ecology, antarctic ecology, estuary.
Excellent explanation: read this
slowly and thoroughly and you
will understand the whole concept
well.
http://www.ftexploring.com/me/pyramid.html
Energy Pyramids and Food
Chains: Descriptions,
explanations and diagrams at a
site with many teacher resources. Check this for worksheets,
games,and books that you can print out.
http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/page1.html
Living on Australian shores: very
good pages on the Australian Rocky Sea Shore include an energy pyramid,
listings of animals and plants, and names and descriptions for tidal levels on
the shore. Suitable for all ages.
http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/energy_pyramid.html
Generalized
Energy Pyramid:
An example of a marine energy
pyramid with diagrams, links,
and definitions by Keith Davey.
This is good for upper elementary
to adult users.
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