Chapter 5: Life in a Changing World

Review Questions for Chapter 5

The Global Diversity Gradient

• NASA's Photo Gallery
• Earth Viewer
• Virtual Library of Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment
• The Mechanism Behind Modern Climate Zones

Islands and Continents

• NOAA's Environmental Information Services
• NASA's Phytoplankton Images
• Very Complete Links to Marine Labs and Other Ocean Sites
• Biology 317 Links to Selected Marine Labs of Interest
• Watch the 1997-98 El Niño and 98-99 La Niña
• Coastal Erosion from El-Niño Winter Storms
• Quicktime Animation of the July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami (1.4 megabytes)
• USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Provinces

• Ecoregion Maps of the World
• Overview of Geography and Ecology of Species Distributions

Diversity Patterns in the Fossil Record

• Diversity Patterns through Time
• A Model for Climatic Change
• Nature Article Abstract and Supplementary Spreadsheet Data Set on
  Quality of the Fossil Record Through Time (Requires Free Log-in)
• Links to Paleontology and Fossils (Last Updated Feb. 2000)
• Rated Paleontology Links (Last Updated 1997)
• Humbolt State University's Life Through Time
• Two Virtual Field Trips to Nevada's Ordovician Marine Communities or Other Sites
• A Virtual Field Trip to a Permian Reef
• Fossil Collecting Sites in Southern California and Elsewhere in North America
• Kevin's Trilobite Website
• The Semi-Compleat Trilobite
• Giant Trilobites and Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
• The Permian Mass Extinction

Global Tectonics and Global Diversity

• Introduction to Plate Tectonics
• Animations of Continental Drift
• Home Site for Paleomap Project
• Simplified Maps of the Ancient Earth
• USGS Site on Marine Geology and Plate Tectonics
• USGS Site on Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
• USGS Site on ABC's of Plate Tectonics
• Another Cool Site on Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
• World Seafloor Map or Complete Map
• Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics
• Volcanoes of the World
• The Formation of Pangaea
• Tectonic Plate Motion
• Tectonic Motion in North America
• Major Earthquakes and Fault Zones of California
• Explanation of San Andreas Fault in California
• Explanation of San Andreas Fault Links
• Real-Time California Earthquake Data at the SCEC (Southern California Earthquake Center)
• Formation of Erosion of a Sea Stack Over 100 Years

Paleoecology: Evidence and Arguments

• Recent Books on Subject of Paleoecology from
  
  
• Don't Forget to Visit Dr. Cowen's Chapter 5 Updates

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