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Habitat Links

 

Two Sites for Everyone to Try:

Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes

World Book Online
http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Home
Note: For Rainforest, type in rain forest.)

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Antarctica

Antarctica Facts
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/antarctica%20fact%20file%20index.htm

 

Scenes from Antarctica
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/scenes_from_antarctica.html

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Caves

Cave Life
http://ans.latech.edu/homes/wakeman/caves/cavelife.html

Howe Caverns
http://www.howecaverns.com/live-in-the-cave

The Virtual Cave
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/cave_life/cave_life.html

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Coral Reef

American Museum of Natural History
http://amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=marinebiology

CRC Reef / Great Barrier Reef
http://www.reef.crc.org.au/discover/plantsanimals/facts_plantanimal.htm

The Nature Conservancy: Coral Reefs of the Tropics
http://www.nature.org/joinanddonate/rescuereef/explore/photos.html

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Desert
Blue Planet
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert_animal_page.htm

 

The Living Africa
http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/

Missouri Botanical Gardens
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm

National Geographic
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/desert-profile.html

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Deep Ocean

Extreme Science (Deep Ocean)
http://www.extremescience.com/deepcreat2.htm

Oddee
http://www.oddee.com/item_79915.aspx

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Dirt

Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
http://forces.si.edu/soils/index.html

 

The Field Museum
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/UndergroundAdventure/kidzone/food_source_habitat.shtml

 

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Oceans

American Museum of Natural History
http://amnh.org/ology/index.php?channel=marinebiology

Missouri Botanical Gardens
Temperate Oceans
http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/oceans/index.htm

Tropical Oceans
http://www.mbgnet.net/salt/coral/indexfr.htm

National Geographic
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/habitats/ocean-profile.html

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Rainforests


Blue Planet
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_animal_page.htm

Rainforest Animals
http://www.rainforestanimals.net/

The Wild Habitat - Tropical Rainforest
http://library.thinkquest.org/11234/rainforest.html


Missouri Botanical Gardens

http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/index.htm

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Swamps

EPA
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/types/swamp.html

NatureWorks
http://www.nhptv.org/NatureWorks/nwep7i.htm

University of Florida
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/4H/Ecosystems/Swamps/swamps.html