Environmental Science

Extended Break Enrichment videos

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Week 2 (April 14-17) Enrichment - Lab - HHMI - Speciation of Anole Lizards


History of Environmentalism in US

Preservation (John Muir) vs. Conservation (Gifford Pinchot)

Natural Resources Research

History of Environmentalism in the US - Notes - Reading

Earth's Position and Motion affect Seasonality and Day length

Introduction to Plate Tectonics

Review Plate Tectonics and Rock Cycle - Video - Bozeman Science

Atlas of the Underworld

Orogeny of the Southern Appalachians

Geology WebQuest

Rock Cycle Tutorial

Soil Texture Introduction

Soil Texture and Structure (Pages 3-12 only)

Human Land Use Exploration

Farragut Land Use Plan - 2012

Unit 2 - Review - Geology, Soils, Erosion, Human Land Use


Hydrosphere

Ocean Currents Tutorial

Types of Water Pollution

Laws Regulating Water Pollution


BIOSPHERE

Video - Geologic Time Scale - History of Life on Earth

UC Berkeley - Geologic Time Scale - Evolutionary History

History of the Biosphere - Presentation Template

History of Hominid Fossil Record

Video - Evidence of Evolution

Extinction

Have we entered the sixth mass extinction event? Barnosky et al. 2011

Speciation

-Reading - Speciation -

-Reading - Orr Chap 18 - Advanced

Introduction -Video - Birds

Video - Anole Lizards

Video - Finches

Video - Real-time evolution of Antibacterial medicine resistance

Lab - HHMI - Speciation of Anole Lizards


ATMOSPHERE

Atmosphere - Structure & Function

Ozone - information

Value of Biodiversity (DoD) (1999)

Laws and Organizations protecting BioDiv

Ecosystem Services (Costanza2017)

Biome Case Studies

Air Pollution Regulations:EPA

Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act

Clearing the Air: Cap and Trade

Our Nation's Air

Microplastics in the Tennessee River

GMO's Introductory video