8.2 Planet Earth and Its Environment
A Five Thousand Million Year Journey

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Background information	Evolution of the Solar System	Early Earth and its evolution
Origin of living cells	Evolution of photosynthesis	Climatic Variations over Earth's history

The Eight Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: one star, eight planets, and more - from Bill Arnett
http://www.nineplanets.org/

Origins - from PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/

Whispers from the Cosmos Map - from University of Illinois
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Expo/bima_nav.html

US National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991-1994 - from Review of Geophysics
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/

History of Earth - from Wikipedia, see the main Article "Formation and evolution of the solar system"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth

Moonstruck:Illuminating early Planetary History - .pdf slideshow, from University of Hawaii
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/a734/ppt/A734_Taylor101104.pdf

Stars, Galaxies and Cosmology - including The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Radiation Laws and Observations at other Wavelengths, from University of Tennessee Astrophysics Group
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/

History of the Universe Timeline - an interactive timeline from Mysteries of Deep Space, pbs online
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/

Evolution of our Solar System - student activity, timeline and gallery from Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/

Solar System Formation - senior version, from Windows on the Universe, University of Michigan
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/formation.html&edu=high

Solar System Formation - from Windows on the Universe, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Intermediate Version
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/formation.html

Prebiotic Evolution and the Precambrian Fossil Record - from Alan Cann, Microbiology Bytes, simple notes and diagrams
http://www.microbiologybytes.com/introduction/Origins.html

Planetary Accretion Model - from Hubble Site
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2003/19/videos/e/formats/low_mpeg.mpg

Lecture 14.2: Formation of the Solar System - from Indiana University Northwest
http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/lucia/a100/lectures/ssform.html

Astrobiology and the origins of Life - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf02/awramik/index.html

Violence in the Cosmos - from University of Tennessee Astrophysics Group
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/

The Origin of the Solar System - from University of Tennessee Astrophysics Group
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/solarsys/nebular.html

Formation of the Solar System - Quicktime movie from Views of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/misc/ssanim.htm

Formation of the Solar System - from Minnesota State University Mankato
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/solarsystem/formation.html

Evolution of our Solar System - student activity, timeline and gallery from Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/

The Use of Role-Playing Exercises in Teaching Undergraduate Astronomy and Physics - with a case study on teaching Solar System Formation, from Australian Telescope National Facility
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/16_2/francis/paper/node3.html

MIT Researchers Propose New Model for Convective Circulation Within Earth's Mantle - from National Science Foundation: Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/99/pr9918.htm

Earth as a Planet - from Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect19/Sect19_2a.html

Atmosphere, Oceans, And Life In The Precambrian - from El Paso Community College
http://www.epcc.edu/ftp/Homes/krimkus/precamb2.htm

Titan - Key to Earth's Evolution? - an article by Emma Bakes from the SETI Institute
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_titan_bakes_021017.html

Evolution of the Early Earth - PowerPoint presentation in pdf from University of Hawaii
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/a281/lectures/earlyearth.pdf

Formation of Earth, Conditions on Early Earth, Origins of Life - from University of Cincinnati, Clermont College
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio303/bigbang.htm

Solar System Origins and Earth's Formation - from University of Haifa
http://maritime.haifa.ac.il/departm/lessons/ocean/lect03.htm

Earth's Early Years: Differentiation, Water and Early Atmosphere - from University of Michigan
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/first_billion_years/first_billion_years.html

Origin of the Earth's Atmosphere - from Eastern Illinois University
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1400/atmos_origin.html

How Did Life Begin? An Interview with Andy Knoll - from PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/knoll.html

Miller-Urey Experiment - interactive simulation of the experiment with movies of Miller setting up apparatus, from University of California Television
http://www.ucsd.tv/miller-urey/

Miller and Urey Spark Discharge - Quicktime movie of recreation of experiment from Norton Publisher
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/chemistry/chemconnections/Origins/pages/spark.html

From Primordial Soup to the Prebiotic Beach - this page also contains some useful links
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/NM/miller.html

Amino acids are created in laboratory - from A Science Odyssey, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/do53am.html

Miller/Urey Experiment - from Duke University
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html

The Beginnings of Life on Earth - an article from American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/21438?fulltext=true

Reflections From a Warm Little Pond - an article published in Astrobiology Magazine
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article5.html

American Museum of Natural History Expeditions - Black Smokers - includes animation of formation of "Black Smokers"
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html

Looking for clues to our mineral wealth - from NOVA, Australian Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/027/027key.htm

"Black Smokers" on the Sea Floor - from United States Geological Survey
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/pubinfo/smokers.html

Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents - from University of Washington
http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/scottv/exploraquarium/vent/intro.htm

Exploring the deep ocean floor: Hot springs and strange creatures - from United States Geological Survey
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/exploring.html

Into the Abyss - from NOVA, PBS Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/

Voyage to Puna Ridge - including Science Factoids eg Biology - Living on the Seafloor and Lava Flows Underwater and Basalt, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.punaridge.org/

Black Smokers and Giant Worms - from Courseworld
http://www.courseworld.com/ocean/smokers.html

AJ's Black Smoker - an applet that explores the development of species in isolation or proximity in Black Smokers, good help files supplied
http://www.well.com/~ajmilne/black_smoker/applet.html

Black Smokers - from California State University
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/les5/smokers.html

Chemosynthesis - from NeMo Explorer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/concepts/chemosynthesis.html

Chemosynthesis - from Voyage to the Deep, University of Delaware
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/level-2/chemistry/chemo.html

Origins of Life: Chemosynthesis - from Kenyon College, Astrobiology
http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/bio3/origin04.pdf

Prehistoric Bacteria - from Volcano World
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/p_a/p_aa/p_aawrpb.html

Introduction to the Archaea: Life's extremists... - from Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html

Life at High temperatures - University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact303/b1

Extremophiles - from the Virtual Museum of Bacteria
http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/niches/evolution/extremophiles.shtml

What is an Extremophile? - from Microbial Life Educational Resources, Carleton College
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/extreme/extremophiles.html

Deep Dwellers: Microbes thrives far below ground
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_29_97/bob1.htm

Topic 1a - The Atmosphere - from Revision Resources for A Level Chemistry, UK
http://www.mp-docker.demon.co.uk/environmental_chemistry/topic_1a/

Evolution of the Atmosphere: Composition, Structure and Energy - from University of Michigan
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/samson/evolution_atm/index.html

Evolution of the Atmosphere - from University of Wisconsin
http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~aos121pkw/121-ch3-2_files/frame.htm

Evolution of the Atmosphere - from Plymouth University
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/atmosphere/evolve.html

The Power of Green - from ASU Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis
http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/default.html

EVOLUTION: When Did Photosynthesis Emerge on Earth? - an article published in Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/289/5485/1703

Origin of Life - from Encyclopedia of Global Change, Environmental Change and Human Society. 11 pages of solid information.
http://www.phy.auckland.ac.nz/staff/prw/Publications/Wills_24.pdf

Global Carbon Cycle

Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle - from The Woods Hole Research Center
http://www.whrc.org/science/carbon/carbon.htm

The Carbon Cycle - from Earth Observatory, NASA
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/CarbonCycle/carbon_cycle4.html

Carbon Cycle - from CRC for Greenhouse Accounting
http://www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/about_greenhouse/carboncycle.cfm

The Carbon Cycle - from Fundamentals of Physical Geography
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/9r.html

What is Carbon? - from Kansas State University
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/ctec/Carbon/carbon.htm

Carbon - from University of Denver
http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/carbon.htm

Change Information Sheet 8: The evidence from past climates - from United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/essential_background/background_publications_htmlpdf/climate_change_information_kit/items/285.php

NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - from the National Climate Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html

CLIMATE SYSTEM RESEARCH CENTER - surrent Research Projects, University of Massachusetts
http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/climate.html

Climate Change - from the Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment. use the Encyclopedia of Global Change, Environmental Change and Human Society link at left
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/english.html

Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics - from American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/overpe00/overpe00.html

Plate tectonics and the evolution of climate - from American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/sleep00/sleep00.html

Deciphering Mysteries of Past Climate From Antarctic Ice Cores - from American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/vostok.html

Evidence of Past Climates - from Manchester Municipal University
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/Resources/Fact_Sheets/Key_Stage_4/Climate_Change/08.html

A Paleo Perspective on Global Warming - from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including The Mid-Cretaceous Period and Weather, Climate, and Paleoclimatology
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html

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