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UNIT 3: Land and Water Use

This unit includes Chapter 15, 16, 9, 10, 12, and 13 from the textbook.  

Scroll down for PPTs, review videos, animations, and diagrams.

Note:  Special thanks and acknowledgement to the staff at Pearson for providing the information and diagrams for the PPTs.  Also, thanks to Ted Ed for the videos.

Ch.16:Marine and Coastal Systems

In Class PowerPoints:

Please download the PPTs and study them, as a means of taking notes.  We will be moving through them in numeric order and each PPT is roughly timed for one day of class.  Click on the buttons to the right to access the PPTs.

How Big Is The Ocean?

Making Waves - The Power of Concentration Gradients:

The Thermohaline Circulation - NASA:

Thermohaline Circulation:

Coral Reefs 101 - National Geographic:

Coral Reefs and Climate Change:

Coral Reefs Aren't As Doomed As You Think:

Conserving Our Spectacular, Vulnerable Coral Reefs:

The Intertidal:

Intertidal Biome:

Importance of Mangrove Forests:

NASA and Mangroves:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Explained:

The Seas of Plastic:

The Surprising Solution to Ocean Plastic:

Oil Pollution In Our Oceans:

The Gulf Oil Spill Disintegrated This Island:

How We Can Keep Plastics Out of Our Ocean:

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990:

Nature Is Speaking - Harrison Fords Is The Ocean:

Our Incredible Ocean - Now Is The Time To Protect It:

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