Unit 5: Plankton and Plants

Click to see the sign off sheet for the Plankton and Plants unit.

Click to see the video The Living Sea.

Click to see the PowerPoint presentation on Evolution.

Click to see a short video on plankton. Here is another short video on plankton. And another.

Click to see a short video of a foraminiferan eating.

Click to see the PowerPoint presentation on Marine Flowering Plants.

Unit 4: Physical Oceanography 2

Click to see the sign off sheet for the Physical Oceanography 2 unit.

Click here to see the video explaining how tides work.

Click here and here to see videos of the world's greatest tidal range in the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Click here to see the different types of tides and how they are related to the phases of the moon.

Click here for more information about tides and to see graphs showing semidiurnal, diurnal and mixed tides.

Click here for the first website for the Forces of Tides webquest. Click here for the second website.

Click here for tide tables in the Time, Tides and Quahogs worksheet.

Click here for a short video on grunion.

Click to view the Power Point presentation on El Nino.

Click to watch a video on El Nino.

Click to get the current status of El Nino for the El Nino lab. Once you are on the website, you should click "Weekly ENSO Update."

Click to view the Power Point presentation on Hurricanes.

Click to view the Power Point presentation on Physical Oceanographic Research Equipment.

Click to visit the first website for the Careers in Marine Physics webquest. Click to visit the second website for the webquest