Textbook Reading:
7: Climate and Biodiversity
Supplement 5: Weather Basics – El Nino, Tornadoes and Tropical Cyclones
8: Aquatic Biodiversity
Click for the Unit 3 Activity Sheet.
Click to watch the short "World Biomes: An Introduction to Climate" video.
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Climate.
Click to watch the short video explaining the rain shadow effect.
Click for an animation on Global Atmospheric Circulation.
Click for an video "How Do Ocean Currents Work?".
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Weather.
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Introduction to Biomes.
Click for the websites that are part of the "Climatograms: Oranges or Olives" lab. The first website is for Mission Biomes: The Great Graph Match and To Plant or Not To Plant.
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Biomes Summary.
Click for the Missouri Botanical Gardens biomes website.
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on El Nino.
Click the links for the "Predicting El Nino Lab." Click for the Sea Surface Temperature - 2011 map. Click for the Sea Surface Temperature - 2015 map. Click for the Chlorophyll a - 2011 map. Click for the Chlorophyll a - 2015 map. Click for the Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall Anomaly - 1997 maps. Click for the Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall Anomaly - 1998 maps. Click to find out the current status of El Nino today.
Click for the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Aquatic Environments.
Click for the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Saltwater Life Zones.
Click to view the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Barrier Islands.
Click for the website for the "Barrier Islands" webquest.
Click here to see what they did to the dunes in Montauk in the fall of 2015. Here's what happened after a storm in the fall of 2016.
Click to watch the short "What is a Coral" video.
Click for the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Coral Reefs and Climate Change.
Click to watch a short video on attempts to save coral reefs.
Click for the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Freshwater Life Zones.
Click to watch the short video "How Lakes Cycle."
Click for the PowerPoint presentation lecture notes on Wetlands.
Click for the Scientific American article "Life in the Ocean."
Click for the Scientific American article "Wetlands."
