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8.2.1 Biophysical Interactions
Atmosphere Hydrosphere
Biosphere Lithosphere

Atmosphere

Greenhouse Effect

Carbon currency - the credits and debits of carbon emissions trading from NOVA, Australia Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/054/054key.htm

Enhanced greenhouse effect - a hot international topic from NOVA, Australia Academy of Science
http://www.science.org.au/nova/016/016key.htm

Acid Rain

Environmental Biology - Acid Rain and Soil Erosion from Biology at Marietta College
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/arain.html

ACID RAIN - from Newton's Apple includes lesson ideas
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/9/acdrain.html

Ozone depletion

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Biosphere

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Conservation from Department of Environmental Science at the University of Adelaide
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/School/Habitat/index.html

Forestry
Land clearing
Fire

The hidden cost of bushfires from NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation
http://www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au/care/soil/soil_pubs/pdfs/hidden_%20cost_bf.pdf

Fire and forests from WA Department of Conservation and Land Management
http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/forest_facts/fire_forest.html


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Hydrosphere

Virtual River - from California State University, Los Angeles
http://www.sciencecourseware.com/VirtualRiver

River regulation
Urban run-off
Coastal sediment budgets
Flood
Drought

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Lithosphere

Soil degradation

Soils and Their Conservation
http://www.waite.adelaide.edu.au/School/Soil/index.html

Sodicity - a dirty word in Australia
http://www.science.org.au/nova/035/035key.htm

Monitoring the white death - soil salinity
http://www.science.org.au/nova/032/032key.htm

The Australian Soil Classification and Soil Reference Sites - View Examples on the Web! from the Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program (ACLEP) at CSIRO
http://www.cbr.clw.csiro.au/aclep/activities.htm

The World of Soil
http://homepages.which.net/~fred.moor/soil/overview.htm

Soil Profile Attribute Data Environment - from Department of Land and Water Conservation
http://www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au/care/soil/SALIS/spade/spade.html

Soil erosion
Salinisation

Salinity in New South Wales - from Department of Land and Water Conservation
http://www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au/care/salinity/

Soil contamination
Mass movement

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Human Impact

Remnants is an exercise designed to teach you about the kinds of land use and environmental variables that impact on birds in Australia's temperate woodlands.
http://www.birdsaustralia.com.au/remnants/

Soils in NSW from NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation
http://www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au/care/soil/


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