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Articles related to "Hydrothermal Vents"
Hydrothermal Vent Bacteria Very hot water rushes up from the seabed carrying toxic chemicals, but animals are found there! hydrothermal vent bacteria • black smokers • giant tube worms • fast growing • symbiotic
Oceanographer: Dead Whales Say A Mouthful Oceanographer Craig Smith has learned a great deal from exploring ocean graveyards. Here's his story. whales • smith • craig • graveyards • emus
Hydrothermal Vents Explore the Hydrothermal Vent community and learn about a little known science topic. hydrothermal vents • volcanoes • sea • ocean • limpets
The Next Frontier We know more about the back side of the moon than we do of the ocean floor. A group of Japanese and New Zealand oceanographic scientists are attempting to rectify this oversight. fiji • lau basin • islands • pacific • minerals
Bowie Seamount Oceanic and coastal marine species live around a mountaintop 25 metres below the surface of the sea. bowie seamount • canadian protected marine area • too far offshore for recreational divers • seamount fisheries • orange roughy
Marine Plant Life Coastal plants are often large, but the most important plant food in the sea is microscopic. phytoplankton • diatoms and dinoflagellates • seaweeds and algae • eelgrasses • sargassum weed and sargasso sea
Strain 121: Life Above the Boiling Point I thought Texas was hot when I lived there. Click above and read about an organism that defies all the rules and can live and grow at temperatures above the boiling point. strain 121 • archaea
Snowball Earth Imagine the Earth gripped in a world-spanning ice age lasting millions of years? Science fiction? Maybe not. A look at the evidence for a "Snowball Earth". geology • geophysics • earth • science • earth science
DNA Selective Signature of Genes Genetic sequencing allows MIT scientists to examine natural selection through the selective signature of a gene across a range of microbial species. selective signature gene • molecular evolutionary genetics • genetic sequencing • microbial natural selection • microbe natural selection patterns
Sea Creatures 101: Underwater Worms Worms are not only found on land. They can be found in the ocean as well! Some glow, some are resistant to extreme temperatures, and what we are learning about these worms could help us in many ways. Learn about underwater worms in this article. underwater worms • paolo worms • pompeii worms
Theories of How Life Began Theories about the first life forms tend to agree on what had to happen, but differ in their explanations of where and how. There are three strong contenders. when how life began • soup sandwich pizza • first cells theories hypothesis • nucleotides molecules nucleic acid • rna ribonucleic dna deoxyribonucleic
Snowball Earth Part 2: The Evidence For Imagine the Earth gripped in a world-spanning ice age lasting millions of years? Science fiction? Maybe not. Part 2 of our look at the evidence for a "Snowball Earth". geology • earth science • earth • science • geophysics
Weathering Part 2: Chemical Weathering The agents of weathering are powerful forces, working to breakdown the rock around us. None of these agents are more powerful those that chemically affect the rocks. geology • geophysics • earth science • rocks • weathering
Yellowstone National Park, Part 1 Yellowstone National Park is a product of its geology. Without the geological processes that shaped it, Yellowstone would be another mountain range. geology • geophysics • earth science • yellowstone • yellowstone national park |
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