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Neat Images for Environments, Habitats, and Ecosystems

A Gallery of Ecosystem Images
Students can look at these ecosystem photographs from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and be prompted to consider what types of organisms might live in them, and how they are adapted to survive.

Forests in Different Stages of Growth
The United States Forest Service has set aside four plots in the woods for study. Each shows a forest at a different stage of growth: 2 years, 12 years, 41 years, and about 86 years. Together the plots demonstrate natural succession--the process by which a forest evolves.

Floridata
An online plant photo resource, Floridata could be very useful in helping to identify unknown plants, or to find out more about known plants.

Twenty-one Critical Ecoregions
The Sierra Club offers a clickable map linking to images and conservation and preservation suggestions relating to twenty-one ecoregions in North America.

Environmental Atlas
This EPA site offers an online environmental map collection, links to other important collections, and information to help you understand environmental quality maps, mapping, and environmental information.

The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.

The Franklin Institute is the Demonstration Site for the Eisenhower Mid-Atlantic Consortium, providing science and math resources for teachers.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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