Ecosystems
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"Learn about Australia's ecosystems. Navigate using a map of Australia." --Source.
Lot's of useful links to individual biomes, "developed by approximately seventy 9th grade students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon in 1997."--Source.
Critical Eco
regions Program. Critical Eco regions Program.
"The Critical Eco regions Program offers a practical, long-term strategy to buttress the "web of life" on Earth. Region by region, we're developing multifaceted plans for every major land and water system in the United States and Canada...these 21 regional plans will help achieve our global vision--to restore the ecological health of the planet--through concrete local action." --Source.
"An interactive WebQuest designed for teachers in search of middle school science curriculum."--Source.
Excellent resource about biomes.
"Biomes are the world's major habitats. These habitats are identified by the vegetation and animals that populate them. The location of each biome is determined by the regional climate."--Source.
"This module presents basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes."--Source.
Wetland, Forest and Other Biomes.
Information on individual biomes.
"This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. 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" (Campbell)."--Source.