Biology 4/5 for the International Student

Work on the Web

Unit 1: The world around us

The World Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php

Australia’s flora and fauna
http://www.australia-migration.com/page/Soils_Fauna_and_Flora/230

Cycles:

    Carbon Cycle: 
    http://www.wwnorton.com/college/chemistry/gilbert/tutorials/interface.swf?chapter=chapter_04&folder=carbon_cycle

    Nitrogen Cycle:
    http://nortonbooks.com/college/biology/animations/ch38a02.htm

    Water Cycle:
    http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html

Carbon footprint
http://www.econeutral.com/carboncalculator.html

Allegheny woodrat
http://www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/factsheets/11476.pdf

Eco Revision
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/games_activities/wildlife/index.cfm

Unit 2: Body talk

Animal senses
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html

Nerve impulses
http://brainu.org/files/movies/synapse_pc.swf

Human brain
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/braindissection/index.html

Unit 3: Birds and the bees

Bacteria
http://www.cellsalive.com/ecoli.htm

Cancer Help
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/index.htm 

Regeneration
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/research/planaria/story_planaria1.php

Parent birds
http://www.scienceray.com/biology/zoology/awesome-animal-dads-in-the-animal-kingdom/
http://www.decodedstuff.com/parenting-in-the-animal-kingdom-my-baby-and-me/

Unit 4: The body code

Rosalind Franklin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bofran.html

Unit 5: It’s in your genes

Mitosis
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

Twin studies
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr04/second.html
http://www.twins.org.au/

Mendel
http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html  

Eye colour
http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=126

Unit 6: The Earth: Moving and Evolving

Mid-Atlantic Ridge
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/mar/

Galapagos Rift 2002 expedition
www.divediscover.whoi.edu/index.html

Great Rift Valley
http://www.ngorongorocrater.com/Attractions/greatrift.php

Gold Smoke – Deep Sea
http://www.csiro.au/promos/ozadvances/Series6DeepSea.html

Black Smoker Chimneys
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/

Geological time line
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/geologictime.php

Unit 7: Behaviour in humans and other animals

Cuckoo
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/cuckoo.htm

Reflex
http://theparentsite.com/babies/reflex.asp

Mimicry
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375#

Konrad Lorenz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZmW7uIPW4

Feral children
http://www.feralchildren.com/en/index.php

Waggle dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdTfEBVcSY&feature=related

Body language
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/kyle.html

Penguin huddle
http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/penguins/emperor_penguin_12.htm

Unit 8: Disease: when our bodies meet the ecosystem

Parasites
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125090339313750961.html

Incidence of disease
http://www.who.int/en/

Bush medicine
http://consejo.bz/belize/bushmedicine.html