Explore Shale geology, water, gas, oil. The Population Biology of Isle Royale Wolves and Moose: An Overview. 1.
Five decades of wolf-moose dynamics The wolves and moose of Isle Royale have been studied for more than five decades. This research represents the longest continuous study of any predator-prey system in the world. The most important events in the chronology have been essentially unpredictable. PLT biodiversity module. A Rain Forest Begins With Rain, Right? Is This A Trick Question? MinuteEarth/Youtube Think of a rain forest — rich with trees, covered by clouds, wet all the time.
Then ask yourself, how did this rain forest get started? I ask, because the answer is so going to surprise you. Search: Ecology. 1.
Terraqua Columns Students build and investigate mini-ecosystems with soil and water components using 2 Liter bottles. Watersheds Box. Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide. Welcome to the Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide!
This teacher's guide was produced by the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a companion to the Climate Discovery exhibit at our Boulder, Colorado laboratory. Each unit contains lessons appropriate for grades 5-9 on a variety of Earth system science topics that facilitate student learning about our planet's climate system. The lessons in each unit can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader and may be reproduced for educational use.
Note: This project is in development. The Climate Future unit will be available in 2007. The Sun-Earth Connection. Part 2 - FoodForThought.pdf. Teacher Resources, Lessons, Plans, Activities. PS3 Ecology Institute. The Carbon Cycle Game. High School Lesson Plans — Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management. Educational Resources. Global Warming Explained, In About A Minute : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images On a pleasant day in 2011, researchers roamed San Diego's public parks in search of volunteers to fill out anonymous surveys about global warming.
In the end about 270 responses were collected from a mix of park visitors and nearby community college students. The researchers wanted to know how well the average American understands the basic processes responsible for global warming, and whether there's a relationship between this basic understanding and the belief that global warming is actually occurring. The results were sobering. While a majority of volunteers believed that global warming is a reality (80 percent) and that human activities are a significant contributing factor (77 percent), only a slim minority was able to explain even rudimentary aspects of the mechanism. Bear Tracker. APES FORMAL LAB ~ TOXICOLOGY - Toxicology Lab - Brine Shrimp _APES_.pdf. Games & Activities.
Which Nations Consume the Most Water? A vast amount of water is used to produce the food and products that nations consume.
Large population is the greatest factor, but inefficient agriculture or dependence on water-intensive cuisine can exacerbate demand; meat consumption accounts for 30 percent of the U.S. water footprint. Certain countries, such as India and the U.S., also export significant quantities of water in the form of food and products, despite their own robust consumption. Populous nations that have little land or little water are huge net importers. Those insights come from engineers Arjen Y. 2010 Census Interactive Population Map.
Climate Wizard: Climate Change Maps and GIS Data. The Habitable Planet - Ecology Lab - Overview. The Habitable Planet - Demographics Lab - Overview. The Habitable Planet - Energy Lab - Overview. The Habitable Planet - Carbon Lab - Overview.
Pollution. Animal Web Cams. The National Zoo is home to 2,000 individual animals of nearly 400 different species.
Our best known residents are our giant pandas, but great apes, big cats, Asian elephants, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, aquatic animals, small mammals, and many others can be found at the Zoo. You can take a virtual visit to the Zoo any day of the week by tuning into our live web cams, which feature many of the Zoo's animals. Watching Asian small-clawed otters: A family of otters, parents and offspring, live on Asia Trail. Small-clawed otters, the smallest of the world's 13 otter species, live in family groups and play often. Watching clouded leopards at the Zoo: Clouded leopards live at Asia Trail. Watching clouded leopards at the Zoo's Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia: The cam features a male and female that were paired at a young age to create a bonded pair for future breeding.
Watching fishing cats: Fishing cats live at Asia Trail. A Terrifying, Fascinating Timelapse of 30 Years of Human Impact on Earth - Emily Badger. A new interactive project from Google, NASA and the US Geological Survey.
Since the 1970s, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been amassing satellite images of every inch of our planet as part of the Landsat program. Over time, the images reveal a record of change: of cities expanding, lakes and forests disappearing, new islands emerging from the sea off the coast of rising Middle East metropolises like Dubai. If you could thumb through these historic pictures as if in a flip book, they would show stunning change across the earth's surface, in both our natural environments and our man-made ones.
Food chain food web. Adaptations. KidWings. MBGnet. Shedd Aquarium. The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale. Interactives.