The Physical Environment
Contents

• Focus on The Physical Environment:
  The Importance of Biodiversity NOVA PBS
• Connections: "Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa" (NPR, 2013)
• How To: In development
• Virtual Field Trip: In development
• Review & Resources
• World of Change: Global Biosphere (NASA Earth Observatory

Chapter 13: Earth Biomes

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Earth's Core" Naked Science
  
• Connections: "Evolution of Landscape Change along Clear Creek, Colorado"
  USGS. A look at the effects of urbanization, aggregate mining and reclamation.
• How To: Constructing topographic profiles 
• Review & Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Earth's Deadliest Earthquakes" (NOVA PBS)  
• Connections: "South Asia Disaster" News Hour with Jim Lehrer. See "Tsunami Warnings" at the site.
• Physical Geography Today: Earthquakes Hazard Program - USGS
• How To: In development
• Get Mobile: apps for Tectonics and Landforms
• Review & Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment"Cascades Volcanoes: When Sleeping Giants Wake" (KSPS Public TV)
• Connections: "Remembering Krakatoa's Cataclysm" (NPR All things Considered)  
  Details.
• Physical Geography Today: Weekly Volcanic Activity (Smithsonian & USGS)
• How To: In development
• Virtual Field Trip: Volcanoes of the World (In development)
• Review & Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Killer Landslides" (NOVA PBS).
  (29:00) 
• Connections:  When Land Slides (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Physical Geography Today: "Real-Time" Monitoring of an Active Landslide above Highway 50, California - USGS
• How To: Interpreting hill slope profiles
• Active Learning:  In development
• Review & Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment - "Floods: Using Satellites to keep Our Heads above Water.  (NASA Earth Observatory)
• Connections: "Tough Questions on Dam Removal" Science Nation (2011)
• Physical Geography Today: Water Watch - USGS
• Connections: Army Corps Project Pits Farmland Against Flood Threat. (NPR 2015) Flood prtection pits farmland against local communites.
• How To: Calculating flood recurrence
• Active Learning:  Virtual River (Cal State-LA)
• Virtual Field Trip: Yunnan Great Rivers Project
• Review & Resource

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Gifts of the Glaciers" Sea Grant Institute
• Connections:"Peeking into Permafrost" (USGS)The USGS wants to investigate what’s causing Alaska's North Slope bluffs to erode so quickly.  
• How To: In development
• Active Learning: Investigating Glacial Landforms in Google Earth
• Virtual Field Trip: Indian Peaks, Front Range, Colorado - Google Earth required
• Review & Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Wind, Dust and Deserts" The Earth Revealed (Annenberg/CPB)
  (29:00)
• Connections: "From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel" NASA Earth Observatory
• How To: In development
• Active Learning: In development
• Virtual Field Trip: Sahara Trek
• Review and Resources

• Focus on The Physical Environment: "Waves, Beaches, and Coasts  The Earth Revealed (Annenberg/CPB)
  (29:00) 
• Connections: "A Dangerous Intersection: Humans and Climate Destroy Reef Ecosystem" NASA Earth Observatory
• How To: In development
• Active learning: Tsunami!
• Review and Resources