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Arctic Tundra

Arctic Tundra

This video segment from Wild Europe: "Wild Arctic" explores the struggle for survival in one of Earth's most extreme environments.

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3-12

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Bear Necessities

Bear Necessities

This Nature video segment focuses on the four foods most important to the grizzly bears' survival, and it describes the threats to the supply of each of them. OER Level

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6-12

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Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries

Bears Don't Recognize Boundaries

In this video segment from Nature, learn about the problems bears are creating on ranch land surrounding Yellowstone National Park. OER Level

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6-12

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Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs

This video segment from Nature explores the unique status of Cuba’s coral reefs. OER Level

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8-12

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Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep Sea Vents and Life's Origins

Deep-sea vents are home to strange, luminescent life forms that thrive through chemosynthesis. This video segment from NOVA: "Volcanoes of the Deep" hypothesizes life's beginnings in this extreme environment. OER Level

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3-12

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Desert Biome

Desert Biome

This video segment from NOVA: "A Desert Place" describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome. OER Level

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3-12

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Desert Habitat

Desert Habitat

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines warm and cold (high) deserts, and describes some of the plants and animals found there as well as their adaptations for living in each type of desert. OER Level

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4-6

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Ecology

Ecology

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K defines ecology and ecosystems and explains how all living and non-living things in an ecosystem interact and depend on the energy of the sun. OER Level

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4-6

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Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

This video adapted from Nature describes efforts to protect salmon by killing or relocating species that prey on salmon. OER Level

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8-12

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Feasting on the Salmon Run

Feasting on the Salmon Run

This video from Nature focuses on the annual “salmon run,” when brown bears descend on Alaska’s rivers to fish in rivers teeming with salmon swimming upstream to spawn. OER Level

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8-12

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Fish Research

Fish Research

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the Chinook salmon's life cycle in the Pacific Northwest and why it is an endangered species. A fisheries biologist takes students through some steps of fish research with explanations of the kinds of information biologists gather to perhaps help manage fish recovery. OER Level

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4-6

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Forests

Forests

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K describes rain, temperate and boreal forests and some of the animals that live in them. OER Level

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4-6

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Habitat

Habitat

This video segment from IdahoPTV's D4K explains the 4 basic requirements of a perfect habitat and what a niche is within a habitat. You'll see videos of different animals in their habitats, such as; bear, moose, spiders and mountain goats, OER Level

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4-6

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Humans and Salmon

Humans and Salmon

In this video from Nature, learn about the adverse impact humans have had upon salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest. OER Level

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8-12

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Life and Death of Salmon

Life and Death of Salmon

This video adapted from Nature explores the life and death of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest. OER Level

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8-12

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Life in Florida's Spring

Life in Florida's Spring

In this video segment from Nature, get a close up look at life in the warm Florida springs and the numerous predators supported by the abundant life. OER Level

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4-8

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Life in the Water Supply

Life in the Water Supply

Take a close look at life in one town’s water supply in this video segment from Nature. OER Level

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4-8

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Protecting the Horseshoe Crab

Protecting the Horseshoe Crab

Learn about the measures taken to protect the horseshoe crab in this video from Nature. OER Level

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4-8

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Red Tide

Red Tide

Learn about red tide and the danger it poses to manatees in this video from Nature. OER Level

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4-8

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Restoring Streams

Restoring Streams

In this video from Nature learn how removal of old dams and river restoration is occurring all over the northwestern United States in an attempt to restore the natural environment and make salmon populations viable once again. OER Level

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8-12

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