Interdependence of life
Description
On planet Earth, no living thing is an island. This video identifies the world's ecosystems as it explains the flow of energy and the cycling of matter within them. Terms such as biosphere and biome, biotic and abiotic, autotrophs (producers) and heterotrophs (consumers), and the food web are defined, and ecology and conservation as fields of study are explored. Rainforests serve as a timely and powerful example of the interdependence of life at the global level-and the devastating worldwide effects of deforestation. Correlates to National Academy of Sciences National Science Education Standards and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
Runtime
22 min
Series
- Librarian Special-Science (24)
- The General Science Collection (8)
- The Complete New Releases Curriculum Library 2006 (30)
- Cambridge Core Science Series: BioBasics (8)
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Date of Publication
[2005], c2005
Database
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