Site Map for Desert Ecology of Tucson, AZ

SITE MAP

Home Page
- Acknowlegements
- Copyright
- How to Use this Site
- Updates: come here to see material added to website
- BIO 109 Materials (species list, ID quizzes, thumbnails or syllabus)
- Site Map
- Setting
  - Geographical Setting: Where are we and what's around us?
  - Geological Setting: How our topography has arisen
    - Geological Story of How the Tucson Valley and Surrounding Mountains Formed
    - Background
      - Plate Tectonics: Why do we have oceans and land, mountains and valleys?
      - Geological Concepts: Becoming a geological detective.
      - Geological Structures: Introduction to Foreces, Faults and Folds.
        
        Recognizing Faults and Folds in Real Rock.
      - Rock Cycle: What are the basic types of rock and how do they form?
      - Brief Geological History of the Southwest: How did the Sierras, Rockies, Colorado Plateau, and Basin and Range form?
- Climate Stories
  - Why Tucson is a Desert
    - Background
  - Tucson's Five Seasons
  - Annual Change: a photographic time-lapse sequence showing how the desert changes through a year
    - Dramatic Change: to see how dramatically one spot can change in just 3 months.
- Adaptation Stories
  - Background
  - Outline
    - Water Stress
    - Temperature Stress
- Plant Stories (169 species)
  - Background
    - Plant Terminology
    - Flowering Plant Lifecycle
    - Types of Photosynthesis -- adaptations to the desert
  - Species List: by common name, scientific name, family, or flower color
  - Species Thumbnails by Flower Color: red | orange | yellow | white | pink | blue
  - Trees (11 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
    - Fabaceae Family
- Animal Stories (140 species)
  - Venomous Animals (8 species duplicated)
  - Arthropods (58 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
  - Fish (2 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
  - Amphibians (6 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
  - Reptiles (20 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
  - Birds (29 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
  - Mammals (25 species): Thumbnails, Quiz
- Resources
- Boxes (special topics within above pages)

Dept. of Biology

West Campus

Pima Community College

last updated May 2, 2008