The mention of coral reefs generally brings to mind warm climates, colorful fishes and clear waters. However, the reef itself is actually a component of a larger ecosystem. The coral community is really a system that includes a collection of biological co

Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try your hand at running a community-bas

The Arctic Studies Center, established in 1988, is the only U.S. government program with a special focus on northern cultural research and education. In keeping with this mandate, the Arctic Studies Center specifically studies northern peoples, exploring

These webpages were developed by approximately seventy 9th grade students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon in 1997. This was an integrated Science, Literature, and Health project in periods 3, 4, and 5 (see links below). Information has been

Although designed primarily for our students in Environmental Biology (Biology 102) and Ecology (Biology 318), we are placing it on the web for the benefit of students and interested people everywhere. The photography on this site has been done by Marie

Columbia University environmental research activities and education programs in the Arizona "living laboratory" originally built for an experiment to test .

The Antarctic ice sheet changes in size over the course of a year, as you can see in this animation. When it is summer in the southern hemisphere (our winter) the ice sheet decreases in size. As the ice sheet melts it releases fresh water into the ocean.

DesertUSA's purpose is to provide a tool for discovery -- a publication which entertains educates and explores with our readers, the beauty, life and culture of the North American deserts.

The Critical Ecoregions Program offers a practical, long-term strategy to buttress the "web of life" on Earth. Region by region, the Sierra Club is developing multifaceted plans for every major land and water system in the United States and Canada, home t

Learn about the different ecosystems and biomes on our planet. Also, find out about the water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles, as well as the food chain.

You need only look out your window, take a walk outside, or stroll around your neighborhood to celebrate Geography Action! 2003-Habitats: Home Sweet Home.

Jungle Photos provides accurate information and excellent images to inspire people to support wilderness conservation and education.

Each biome section on this web site includes interesting facts about climate, location, animal and plant adaptations, land formation, and soil. The impact section includes information about social and environmental human disturbances that occur in each bi

Have you visited any biomes lately? A biome is a large ecosystem where plants, animals, insects, and people live in a certain type of climate. If you were in northern Alaska, you would be in a frosty biome called the Arctic tundra. If you jumped on a plan

Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands found in tropical and subtropical regions. They are characterized by halophytic (salt loving) trees, shrubs and other plants growing in brackish to saline tidal waters. These wetlands are often found in estuaries, wher

Answer the question: What's It Like Where You Live? Learn about terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems. Follow link to site about plants."

This page has become a kind of backwater in our own web; we have a lot of NEW features that might be of interest to students and educators alike. Feel free to use these resources and link to them; just be sure to mention Marietta College so I can convinc

Colorado is divided almost right down the middle by the Rocky Mountains. In order to get to the other side of the state, humans had to figure ways to cross these mountains. Let's see how people dealt with and continue to deal with this physical barrier.

Biomes are ecosystems where several habitats intersect. ... The energy cycle within biomes, habitats, and ecosystems determines which populations survive .

On the Line was a millennium project that explored and celebrated the lives of people who live in the eight countries lying along the zero degree meridian line: Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Algeria, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom.

Our stories have been inspired, in part, by talented nature and wilderness photographers whose extraordinary images, along with their commitment to conservation, have served to inspire others to protect special wilderness areas and threatened species.

A repeated piercing squawk fractured my sleep again, the same intrusive sound that jolted me awake each of the past two days. I knew its source was a bird, near the ground and probably within ten feet of my cabin, but hidden in the dense curtain of leaves

Deserts are arid regions, generally receiving less than ten inches of precipitation a year, or regions where the potential evaporation rate is twice as great as the precipitation.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is made up of 36 staff members in San Francisco, CA and in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable worl

Shades of Green: Earths Forests - Explore the world's forests -- find out how they function and evolve over time, discover the plants and animals that live in them, learn about the benefits they bring and the threats they are facing. Shades of Green:

"The reasons for even considering the lower tip of Florida as a national park are ninety percent biological ones, and hence highly perishable."

One World Journeys: The Sonoran Desert - 5000 Square Miles of Silence

Welcome to the World's Biomes Page! Biomes are defined as "the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment"

Tropical savannas or grasslands are associated with the tropical wet and dry climate type (Koeppen's Aw), but they are not generally considered to be a climatic climax. Instead, savannas develop in regions where the climax community should be some form of

Among the most important ecosystems on Earth, the wet ecosystems of bogs, freshwater marshes, prairie potholes, forested swamps, and salt-water estuaries provide critical nesting, rearing, feeding, and stop-over habitat for bird and other wildlife populat

Click on a biome on the above graph for more information, informative videos, and links to scientist profiles, travel information, lesson plans and species profiles for each region.