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Hands planting a seedling in the dirt. Caption: Plants grow just about everywhere.

Still image from: Return to the River: Diary of a Wildlife Cameraman

Tall, thin trees choked with brush. Caption: Fire is a landscape process.

Ducks floating in the water. Caption: aquatic birds, such as ducks and geese, are common.

Black-and-white computer drawings split into 3 layers. The top layer depicts fish and reads, "Fish." The middle layer depicts a variety of insects and reads, "Insects." The bottom layer depicts plants and reads, "Algae."

Small light and dark brown butterfly with wings closed sitting on a leaf. Caption: (Sally) Some of these butterflies are challenging--

Fingers of land with inlets of water. A large flat bridge in the background. Caption: Ochlockonee Bay. (Sash) It feeds that huge marine estuary down there,

A tortoise being held in a pair of human hands. Caption: Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Look at their front feet. They're just like shovels.

Microscopic image showing web-like structures and C shaped tubular organisms. Caption: (narrator) The soil itself is home to a vast number of tiny microbes,

Person holding a small crab. Caption: could wreak so much havoc in the marshes of Cape Cod?

Dam with no water being released. Caption: (male narrator) Time can take a toll on a dam.

Two small seedlings with their roots in the soil. Caption: optimally suited to survive and thrive.

Microscopic view of tubular structures. Caption: (Saros) They can be early indicators of environmental change.

Person pointing at the ground. Caption: study the ants as an invasive species

People on the deck of a ship, working on various equipment. Caption: probing the oil and gas plumes beneath them.

Earthworm in a person's hand. Caption: are actually invasive species.

Floating metal measurement instrument in deep blue water. Caption: thrown overboard to analyze water samples

Volcano billowing smoke and ash. Caption: (male narrator) Mount St. Helen's eruption in 1980 wasn't a surprise.

People walking on a trail among burned trees. Caption: to study the fire's impact on the ecosystem.

Close up of dark, viscous fluid with small bubbles on the surface. Caption: and we can get those volatiles out of the water.

A large tree with bright green leaves as seen from below. Caption: The forests are working overtime.

A cultivated vegetable garden with inmates and razor-wire-topped chain-link fencing in the background. Caption: science and scientists behind bars as well.

Man releasing water into the air from a pump. Caption: equivalent to a major storm,

People gathered around two troughs filled with water. One person is reaching into the water and two others are handling a small object. Caption: studies mussels' role in their environment.

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Black salamander with yellow spots crawling on the ground. Caption: to survive in a specific habitat is a structural adaptation.

A bird standing on a rock between two cacti. Spanish captions.

Field of grain like plants. Caption: such as ethanol and propanol.

A container of BioFuel. Spanish captions.

Large turtle swimming on the ocean floor. Caption: Every living thing gets energy from food.

A hummingbird hovering near a feeder. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a cluster of mushrooms. Fungi decomposer. Caption: Fungi are another type of decomposer.

Closeup of a cluster of mushrooms. Fungi decomposer. Spanish captions.

People walking down a snowy street. Caption: The planet earth has many different kinds of environments.

A desert hill. Spanish captions.

Herd of cows grazing in a green pasture. Caption: All living things need energy to grow, change and move.

Illustration of a plant with a cross section showing the root system. A sun is in the sky above. Spanish captions.

Forested mountain side. Caption: Forests grow all over the world and are very important

Green clearing in a forest. Spanish captions.

Giraffes in natural habitat. Caption: Imprinted behaviors are fairly permanent,

Adult goose with ducklings feeding from the grass. Spanish captions.

Adult dog with a puppy. Caption: Innate means you we're born with them.

Peacock with tail feathers fanned out. Spanish captions.

Formations of red rock in desert scrub brush. Caption: Rocks are non-living things.

Red rock topped with green scrub and a rainbow in the sky. Spanish captions.

Field of sunflowers. Glucose. Caption: The food they produce is called glucose.

Field of wildflowers. Spanish captions.

Earthworm on top of soil. Caption: Plants and animals provide nutrients to the soil.

Man riding a tractor in a field. Spanish captions.

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Caption: The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness

Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a tropical rainforest. Caption: Scientists divide the tropical rainforest into five layers

Illustration of a tropical rainforest. Spanish captions.

Person looking into a microscope. Caption: (Zacharias) What do you do at the lab?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Busy Bees

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Fungi--Why Mushrooms Are Awesome--Biology for Kids

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Does a Seed Become a Plant

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Plastic Hurts the World

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How Wildfires Help

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Invading Birds

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Meet 3 Giant Insects

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Do Bananas Come From--Botany for Kids

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Worms Are Wonderful

Still image from: SciShow: Fairy Rings

Still image from: SciShow: Invasive Species--The Story of Bunny

Still image from: Sea Change: Changing Seas (Part 6)

Still image from: Sharks for Kids

A group of fish swimming together. Caption: of a submerged mountain forming enormous schools.

Fossilized dinosaur skeleton still partially encased in rock displayed next to a model of the same dinosaur. Caption: Out of those, only a few are really prepared well.

Congo expedition of the American Museum of Natural History May 1909 to November 1915. Black and white photos of explorers with crocodile skulls and a map in the background. Caption: Those explorers had collected crocodile specimens

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Pine Cones

Still image from: Skunks for Kids

Closeup of a slug with arrows labeling its optical and sensory tentacles at the front, its mantle in the middle, and its keel towards the back.

Oil drilling platforms in the ocean with many ships in the water around them. Caption: but they can make money because of our energy policy.

Large fish with a spotted upper body and white underbelly swimming open-mouthed into a school of smaller fish. Caption: Each community is populated by different species.

Still image from: Spiders for Kids

Venn diagram with a red circle on the left labeled, "Causes harm" and a blue circle on the right labeled, "Not from here." An arrow labeled "Invasive Species" points to a purple area where circles overlap.

Long shot of a marsh with the sun peeking through clouds in the distance. Title card reads, "Marsh."

Extreme closeup of a hand holding up a black water bug.

Still image from: Squid for Kids

An orange starfish and orange anemone. Caption: the battle and the anemone rises to defend itself.

Still image from: Stink Bugs for Kids

Still image from: Summer in the Meadow: Diary of a Vanishing World

Still image from: Super Animals: Beautiful Creatures

Still image from: Super Animals: Chatty Creatures

Still image from: Super Animals: Cold Creatures

Still image from: Super Animals: Enduring Champs

Still image from: Super Animals: Heat Heroes

Still image from: Super Animals: Mega Movers

Still image from: Super Animals: Stranger Beings

Still image from: Super Animals: Transformers

Still image from: Super Animals: X-treme Predators

Coral of various shapes and a range of colors. Caption: and these are the corals we call "super corals."

Person swimming over a coral reef in shallow water. Caption: of biology that exists on the coral reef.

Person kneeling on the ground next to a pile of dark material. Caption: which sells fashion items made from recycled garbage.

A bright yellow fish with white stripes. Caption: to probe for worms, crabs and other hidden prey.

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2024)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2031)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2119)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2210)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2216)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2221)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2222)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2224)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2225)

Still image from: Teen Kids News (Episode 2233)

Large tree in a densely wooded forest. Caption: They grow to be 300 feet tall and 23 feet around.

Translucent white termites in the dirt. Caption: Termites are social insects,

Black and white photo of a building engulfed in flames. Caption: What happened here on the seventh of February, 1967,

Treetops in the foreground and rolling mountains in the distance. Caption: The atmosphere consists of a mixture of gases.

Crab with red legs and a darker body. Caption: Most of the year, the red crabs live in their burrows inland.

We look down at the edge of a tan tent that is secured in the sand.

Woman smiles up at us from beneath a bucket hat as she sits with her legs wrapped together in white fabric.

Two cartoon characters. Biomagnification.

Two cartoon characters with a DNA strand. Ecological Relationships.

Two cartoon characters. Ecological succession.

Food Webs, Energy Pyramids, and Intro to Biodiversity.

Waterfall. Caption: The freshwater biome includes bodies of water that are moving,

A pencil sketch of a fish with wing like fins, and a tail. On screen text, Jenny Hanivers. Caption: and became known as Jenny Hannivers,

Owl with a small rodent in its beak. Raptor - A bird of prey such as an eagle, hawk, or owl that kills and eats other animals for food. Caption: Nocturnal raptors like owls eat many rodents

Litchens are found on a rusty car door. Caption: What caught their attention was the abundance of lichens,

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Indiana Sand Dunes

Still image from: The Brain Scoop: Rose Pest Solutions Tour

A photograph of Cetti's Warbler and its egg which measures 1 centimeter. On screen text, Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti. Caption: This is a Cetti's warbler from Southern Europe.

The Kankakee Mallow flowers have bloomed at the apex of the plant. Caption: From extinction to several feet tall.

Person using a wooden mallet to break open a stone. Caption: About half have something in them.

Illustration of a boy pouring a bucket of water onto a small tree. Caption: Liam began to feel like a real gardener,

A large orange fish swimming in a reef. Caption: making sure that he is well groomed and ready.

Still image from: The Electric Sheep: Fantastic Zoology and Ecological Balance (Spanish)

Leaves and branches on a tree. Photosynthesis. Caption: In photosynthesis, trees take in carbon dioxide,

Two sea mammals swimming side by side. Caption: Her newborn calf sleeps snugly by her side.

Calm, wide river flowing through a green tree lined plain.

Flock of large birds landing on the shore and in the water. Caption: the wildlife simply adapts to the new conditions.

Three people walking through the woods. Caption: I think back to the project quite a bit.

Brown lizard with red spots wearing a collar, standing on a rock. Caption: (Ms. Frizzle) Why, that's a collared lizard!

Cartoon character swinging a net while surrounded by butterflies. Caption: Oh! I can't see! Get your hands off! Aah!

People on the magic school bus wearing rain hats. Caption: Ahh. The sweet smell of swamp gas.

Students from the magic school bus underwater as mussels. Caption: (Ms. Frizzle) Now that you're mussels, act like mussels.

Students on the magic school bus. Caption: Two things make me sneeze -- pollen and pepper.

Cartoon of a person's face on a fish body. Caption: Eat and grow. Eat and grow.

Cartoon characters next to a pond with a frog on a lily pad. Caption: And lots of space to hop around in.

Cartoon of children in a classroom. One of them holds up a jar with a pickle in it. Caption: Kids of the jury, this is a pickle.

Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of pigeons sitting on the window ledge of a high-rise building. Caption: We'd better get back to the others.

Students and their teacher from the magic school bus in standing in a jungle in front of a tree with white puffy blooms on the trunk. Caption: It's your cocoa tree, all right, Ms. Frizzle.

Cartoon of a person wearing a hard hat, kneeling in the dirt and holding some in their hands. Caption: Look! Beautiful rich soil!

Teacher outside the magic school bus wearing a rock outfit. Caption: Leave no stone unturned.

Graphic of a strand of DNA with the C-G-A-T protein sequences. Caption: A mutation is a change in the chemical letters

A large bird flying through the sky. Spanish captions.

Magnified view of red, spherical objects. Caption: Then he tested for the sickle cell character.

Blood cells flowing through a vein. Spanish captions.

Close up of a small, spiny, translucent fish. Caption: The fish absorb enough oxygen from the sea

Empty sand beach. Caption: When the Maori arrived to New Zealand in 900 AD it was one of the last places on earth to be settled by humans.

Children outside, near the Outsiders Club shed, working at a table with cut plastic bottles and other materials.

Close-up of a skillet toasting several small round sandwiches with a hand and a spatula flipping one.

Children talk to each other while standing next to a chain-link fence.

Young woman with her hair in a braid stands near a small pond in a park, with palms and tall trees in the background, as she speaks to someone off-screen.

Boy and girl hike while surrounded by cypress trees and roots, underneath a bright green canopy of leaves.

Children carrying backpacks and a walking stick talk amongst cypress trees and other plant life.

Two kids in yellow jumpsuits stand on either side of an adult as he unfolds a bright green fire shelter.

Man wearing sunglasses and a bright yellow button-down shirt shows a folded-up fire shelter to two kids who are clad in yellow jumpsuits. Behind them, a fire truck is parked on the grass.

Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption reads: "Lake Griffin State Park."

Two kids walk through a trail bordered by palm fans and surrounded by trees. A thick tree limb in the foreground frames the top of the scene. Caption, in Spanish: "Parque Estatal Lago Griffin."

A photo of the rose garden in the backyard of Buckingham palace.

An aerial view of Buckingham palace.

Still image from: The Ring People (Episode 4)

Still image from: The Water Cycle for Kids

Three old black and white images of men. Caption: (narrator) Roosevelt and Burroughs traveled to Yellowstone in 1903.

Still image from: This Is How The Earth Sounds: Garagoa, Boyacá (Spanish)

Still image from: This Is How the Night Sounds: River Landscapes (Spanish)

Still image from: This Is How the River Sounds: Raudal de Angosturas (Spanish)

Still image from: This Is How the River Sounds: The Sounds of the River of Yari (Spanish)

Still image from: This Is How the River Sounds: Yarumales (Spanish)

Still image from: Through the Garden Gate: A Diary of the English Countryside

Still image from: Through the Woods: Berries and Brambles

Tree growing in the middle of a field. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Turtles for Kids

Blue sea anemones with a small orange fish inside it. Caption: Other animals use anemone venom for defense in less subtle ways.

Still image from: Vultures for Kids

A herd of wild herbivores. Caption: Herbivores are animals that only eat plants.

Close-up shot of a person squatting down and picking up a handful of dry debris of leaves and dirt off the ground, crumbling it in her hand.

Rocky streambed between snow covered banks. Caption: eventually causing them to split apart.

Still image from: Weird Animals for Kids

Tall trees rising from standing water and mud. Caption: wetlands are harder to define than other biomes.

Still image from: Whales for Kids

Still image from: What Are Cnidarians?

Still image from: What Are Echinoderms?

Still image from: What Are Mollusks?

Still image from: What Are Nematodes?

Moss hanging from tree branches. Spanish captions.

Frigid water with ice floating in it buts against a sheet of ice. Spanish captions.

Multiple levels of freeway on and off ramps with vehicles. Spanish captions.

Closeup of pink flowers with water dripping from them. Caption: Plants also need water to survive.

Deep cracks in dried out mud. Spanish captions.

Spots of greenery in between a wide, muddy channel. Spanish captions.

Still image from: What's Wild: Ants

Still image from: What's Wild: Carnivorous Plants

Still image from: What's Wild: Carrion Beetle

Still image from: What's Wild: Gopher Tortoise