Search Online Resources:
Microbial Life in Extreme Environments
Subject: Biology Show all
Resource Type
Extreme Environments
Grade Level Show all
Middle (6-8)
82 matches
Grade LevelResults 1 - 10 of 82 matches
Evolution 101: From Soup to Cells—the Origin of Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page is part of an evolutionary biology tutorial for teachers. It provides an overview of the origins of life. Subsequent pages cover possible mechanisms of abiogenesis, the search for ancient ...
From the Top of the World...to the Bottom of the Food Web part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students discover linkages among marine ecology, phytoplankton, the behavior of light at the ocean surface, and ...
Virtual Vacationland part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This resource, by the Bigelow Laboratory, is designed to help teachers and students find and use web-based Earth Sciences data and information. Content is arranged by topic: land topography, ...
Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms – Educational Activities part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Bigelow Laboratory site is designed to helps students and teachers discover information about toxic and harmful algal blooms (HABs). Five online standards, based educational activities, explore ...
Tardigrada (Water Bears) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This reference page offers a brief description of Tardigrades, also known as water bears. It includes information about their physical appearance, an explanation of their name, likely habitats, ...
Tardigrades part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This online article describes tardigrades and discusses how amateur microscopists can help scientists understand more about microscopic organisms called tardigrades, commonly known as water bears. ...
Phylum: Tardigrada (water bears, tardigrades) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This web page describes water bears, minute animals that can remain dormant in a dry state for over 100 years. The page addresses what they are, where they are found, their general biology, ...
Life's Limit part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Dr. Rocco Mancinelli of the SETI Institute is featured in this web article discussing the environmental limits to life including extreme life forms that can thrive in harsh conditions of salt, ...
The Search for Extremophiles on Earth and Beyond part of SERC Web Resource Collection
In this article, Penelope Boston examines the limits of life in a variety of Earth's extreme environments as well as the connection to possible extraterrestrial life. Also included are a number ...
Tardigrades as Environmental Indicators part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay was written by Amber, a high school senior who won the Young Naturalist Award in 2001 for her research on tardigrades (also known as water bears) as environmental bioindicators. Amber ...