Habitats
Introduction
Biodiversity:
Everything Counts
Study the rich diversity of life on earth. Our world is like
a web made up of many strands, all connected together. Break
one connection, and the whole web may change.
Habitats
Home
Middle School-level site with interactive graphics. Lots of pictures
of plants and animals in every habitat.
Habitats:
Home Sweet Home
Beginning just beyond the window, and extending past the boundaries
of your town or city across the Earth's surface, an amazing variety
of habitats awaits-along with the plants and animals that live
in them. National Geographic.
What's
It Like Where You Live?
Visit the earth's "Biomes" which are areas with very
different geology and plant and animal life: deserts, rainforests,
tundra, taigas, temparate and grasslands. [Note: click on one
of the objects at the top to see something below.]
Cities and Suburbs
Backyard Nature
Here's how you can teach yourself to be a pretty good backyard
naturalist.
Cities
and Suburbs
Who lives in cities and suburbs? People, of course! But that's
not the only answer. Although urban areas are built by and for
humans, wildlife also has to share the same spaces. Interactively
explore a new ideal suburb. National Geographic.
Deserts
Cadillac
Desert
Witness the power of water. How Americans have used, abused,
protected, controlled, fought over, and died for water.
Deserts
and Tundra
Both deserts and tundra receive very little rainfall-usually
as little as 10 inches (25 centimeters) a year.
Forests
The
Fantastic Forest
See the sun peeking over the mountain tops, feel the damp earth
under your feet, hear the rush of the waterfalls.
Forests
As anyone can tell you, a forest without trees just isn't a forest.
All forests have lots of trees, so does that mean that a forest
in Russia is pretty much like a forest in Brazil? No way! From
the National Geographic.
Rainforests
Watch videoclips, play interactive games, learn ways you can
help save the rain forests from your home.
Trees
Trees are alot like people, only slower. Find out how they work.
Fresh Water
Lakes, Ponds and Rivers
Investigate our waterways and learn to keep our drinking
water pure.
Mountains
Mountains
What a flat, dull place the world would be without mountains!
Covering about a fifth of the earth's surface, mountains are
found on all continents and there are even mountains under the
surface of the sea.
Oceans and Coasts
Ocean Creatures
Learn about creatures of the deep: whales, sharks, sea otters,
jelly fish and creatures of ancient seas.
Oceans
Travel in submersibles and other ships. Find out more about waves,
currents and tidal forces.
Prairies
Alberta's Special
Places and The Species that Inhabit Them
The girl in the photo is enjoying a special place, a Grasslands
vista in Southern Alberta. It is but one of the six diverse landscapes
that make Alberta, our homeplace, so special.
Build
a Prairie
Restoring a prairie is a great challenge, requiring knowlege
of biology, ecology, climatology, and even economics. An interactive
challenge for kids.
Prairies
Every continent except Antarctica has grasslands, which are called
by many names-savannas, pampas, plains, and steppes. Grasslands
are usually located in the interior of continents, between forests
to the north and deserts to the south. North America's grasslands
are called "prairie." From the National Geographic.
Underdogs:
Prairie Dogs At Home
Plunge down a prairie dog's burrow and learn about how tey make
little rooms for all their needs. From the National Geographic.
Wildlife
and Habitat
Find out more about prairie dogs and waterfowl and how you can
help protect the environment. From the Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission.
Swamps and Mangroves
Guide
to the Mangroves of Singapore
From a coastline almost entirely covered with mangroves, Singapore
now contains only a few scattered patches of mangrove. Yet the
little that remains has revealed many surprising discoveries.
Young Friends
of the Everglades
At the age of 104, Marjory was clearly ecstatic about the involvement
of young people with her cause to save the Everglades!
"Take the children into the Everglades. Let them see it!"
she stated. "The children are our future and we can't do
without that!" Gorgious photographs.
Tundra
Winter Unit Study
Find out about really cold places, about the science of cold,
fun in the snow, and winter tales.
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