Summary: The oceans are life's laboratory, the global test tube where trial and error meet cause and effect. By focusing on pivotal animals-ammonites, flatworms, sea squirts, frog fish, and bottlenose dolphins, to name only five-and anatomical adaptations such as the eye, the brain, the backbone, and fins, this program illustrates how life populated the seas. Evidence of humankind's evolutionary past is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Traveling from Gaumukh, the source of the holy Ganges, to Gangasagar, where the river enters the sea, this program acquaints viewers with some of India's venerable cultural traditions-and reflects on environmental factors that are steadily destroying this sacred Indian waterway. The Durga Puja Festival at Gangnani, a wedding procession in Haridwar, ritual bathing at Allahabad, and ritual...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Clean Water Act has led to a vast improvement in the overall quality of industrial point source wastewater, but there is still a significant amount of work to be done. In this program, George Crozier, executive director of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab; attorney David Perry; wastewater superintendent Bhaskar Patel; representatives of International Paper and petroleum refiner Koch Industries;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Use this video to impress upon your students the importance of the seven seas to people, the marine food chain, and the planet as a whole. Topics include the various kinds of currents and the forces that influence them, tides and waves (what they are, what causes them, and how they're classified), features of the seabed, and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Water shortages contribute to many regional conflicts worldwide. Only two-and-a-half percent is fresh, and it is therefore a precious commodity. This documentary illustrates how the worsening problem of global water shortage leads to regional political and social conflicts, destruction of economies, and famine. Beginning in the Middle East, we see how diversion of water to Israel at the expense...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program illustrates the physical, biological, and chemical treatment processes required to decontaminate industrial and residential wastewater and describes ways in which discharge is being put to work. Two wastewater treatment facilities are toured-one a traditional bricks-and-mortar operation and the other a constructed wetland system. Also, Steve Woods, of the Bayou Marcus Water...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the gentle ebb and flow of a neap tide to the crashing force of mammoth breakers, the Earth's ocean waters are constantly at work, shaping and eroding beaches, fjords, sea cliffs, and other geographical features. This program shows how waves, currents, and tides interact dynamically with the planet's coastal environments. Presenting vital information on emergent and submergent coastlines,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: For thousands of years, the only threat to polar bears came from humans. Nothing has changed-except now it is fossil fuel consumption, not spears and guns, that pushes Ursus maritimus toward extinction. Depicting the hapless species as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, this program studies the intensifying impact of climate change on the Arctic region. Viewers learn how the entire Arctic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Called "the rainforests of the sea," the world's coral reefs are home to millions of species. But these underwater ecosystems are in grave danger. This program travels to Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar; Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania; and Ras Mohammed National Park, Egypt, to study the fragile ecology and amazing biodiversity of coral reefs-and the impacts of tourism, pollution,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program, divided into three parts, gives several examples of reactions: potassium thiocyanate solution with iron (III) nitrate solution to explain ionic equilibrium; acid-base chemistry, using ethanoic acid as an acid, and ethanoate ion and ammonia as bases; and copper metal with silver nitrate solution to illustrate redox chemistry.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The Donana marshland. The oyster beds below Rio. The Caspian's sturgeon fishing grounds. The coral reefs of the South Pacific. This program travels to Spain, Brazil, Iran, and Fiji to observe efforts to mitigate severe ecological damage to these sensitive regions-places primarily spoiled by water pollution, with causes as varied as upland agricultural runoff and the rupture of a mine tailings...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program, divided into three parts, looks at the difference between melting and dissolving using the example of sodium chloride. The reaction of sodium chloride solution with silver nitrate exemplifies precipitation; ammonia, added to a solution of copper (II) nitrate, forms a copper (II) hydroxide gel; and the successive complexation of copper (II) by ammonia molecules serves as an...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program traces the water cycle, beginning with the collection of rainwater in rivers and lakes, in great detail through a water treatment plant, to some of the places where water is used, and finally back into the atmosphere. Treatment of the water begins with the use of chlorine to destroy organisms; the water is then filtered through various sedimentation tanks to remove solid matter....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Using computer-generated animations, this program clearly demonstrates the structures and changes of state in water-specifically in ice melting, in water evaporating, and in water boiling-all at the molecular level. Each demonstration scientifically clarifies student misconceptions about the process and reinforces concepts that carry over into molecular change in other elements.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Erickson, Jon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.46 ERISummary: Any study of Planet Earth, with its surface area of approximately 200 million square miles, will obviously have a lot of ground to cover! Using high-quality film footage and detailed animations, this collection of 49 video clips (30 seconds to 2 minutes each) examines the history of Earth, the structure of Earth, tectonics and volcanism, water and the oceans, the evolution of landscapes, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Marine scientists have mapped the ocean floor and discovered that the "spine" of the earth runs down the Atlantic Ocean, then up through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is here that the earth's crust was forged, and it is also where living things first existed. Using satellite images and the latest marine technology, this program contains stunning footage of the ocean floor, the underwater...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Although sustainable fishing practices are a rarity in our environmentally threatened world, some can be found. This program searches out fishing industries that take steps to protect delicate ecosystems. In the Canary Islands, fishermen use hook-and-line methods for high market-value species and take only fully mature fish. In Oman, the authorities closely monitor catch sizes as well as what...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program examines the harm done to the Everglades by decades of exploitation and contamination. The impact of the sugar and orange industries, of flood control efforts, of Florida's burgeoning population, and even of competing conservation initiatives are considered. The points of view of environmentalists, industry, Native Americans, and academics are represented by John Ogden, of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Household waste can cause pollution of all kinds, but more and more of these wastes can be recycled effectively and economically. The result is reduced pollution and a useful new source of raw materials and energy. Hospital waste disposal presents the additional problems of contaminated waste, which is a series of problems depending on the nature of the waste: contaminated blood waste, for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: A typical city of 100,000 produces millions of gallons of wastewater every day. In this program, Harold Gorman, of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board; Teresa Battenfield, director of Houston's wastewater treatment plant; Casi Callaway, executive director of Mobile Bay Watch; and many others consider the challenges of collecting wastewater via aging pipes as populations continue to grow....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Sea-level change has occurred throughout Earth's history. What can the past tell scientists today about the rise and fall of the planet's oceans? This program takes viewers on a virtual field trip to the Book Cliffs, in Utah-the place where sequence stratigraphy was developed and tested-to study and interpret the sedimentary record there. Some of the field evidence for sea-level change is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Hudson River, the catalyst for the conservation movement of the 19th century and the environmental movement of the 20th, remains a focus of conflicting desires and competing demands. In this Bill Moyers program, Robert Boyle, author of The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History; Hudson Riverkeeper John Cronin; folksinger Pete Seeger, founder of the Clearwater Foundation; Franny...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When the USDA replaced MyPyramid with MyPlate, the goal was to simplify dietary recommendations by providing at-a-glance guidelines without having to weigh and measure at every meal. This program explores the key concepts of MyPlate and how it correlates to the more detailed Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including portion sizes, proportions, food group choices, and caloric balance. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011