Web Quest Resources
Intertidal
Enchanted Learning – Intertidal Animals and adaptations
Wild Classroom – Intertidal Biome
Coastal Development
NOAA – coastal development
National Geographic – coastal development
Beach Nourishment - Effects of Shoreline Structures on Performance
Man and the Intertidal Zone – Human effects on the biome
Chemical Pollution – Very high end lexile
Neritic Zone
World Wildlife Foundation – Open Ocean
Britannica Online – Neritic Zone
Office of Naval Research – Blue Water
Submarine Canyons
National Oceanographic Partnership – Submarine canyon?
Sludge - Wikipedia
Science and the Sea - Submarine canyons
Science and the Sea – Canyon pollution
Monterrey Bay – SIMoN sanctuary
Pollution – Organic contaminants in canyon sediment
USGS - Hudson Canyon
US Navy – Sediment transport
Kelp Forests
NOAA – Kelp forests
Sierra Club - possible effects of global warming on biological
processes in the ocean
Kelp Forests - lesson plans for a marine environment
Kelp Forests – General info
News in Science – Threats to kelp forests
Sea Kelp – Uses for kelp
Forests of Kelp - Near shore structures and effects
Coral Reef
CoRIS - NOAA's Coral Reef Information System
National Geographic – Great Barrier Reef
World Wildlife Foundation – Threats to coral reefs
Global Issues – Coral Reefs
Ambergris Caye – Coral Reef vacations
Great Barrier Reef – Travel to Queensland
Pelagic Zone
Wild Classroom – Pelagic Biome
Sargasso Sea
How Stuff Works – Sargasso Sea
Greenpeace – Trash Vortex
Habitats of the World – Threats to the Sargasso Sea
Sea Turtles – Rehabilitation and Pollution
Federal Register – threat of Sargasso harvest to American eel
Bermuda Triangle
Benthic Zone
USGS – Benthic ecosystems and links
NOAA – Benthic Animals
Hydrothermal Vents
Water Encyclopedia - Hot Springs on the Ocean Floor
Woods Hole – Hydrothermal Vent systems
Fisheries and Aquaculture – use of hydrothermal vents
Office of Science and Technology – harvesting minerals from vents
Indiana University - Vent Communities
UNEP – national jurisdiction for vent mineral harvesting
Cold Seep
Monterrey Bay – overview of Cold Seeps
AAAS – Cold Seep creatures
OSU SBI- Research Feature: Benthic Microbial Fuel Cells
Marine Ecology – Cold seep benthic communities
Geobiology – Fuel cells from cold seep