1.3.1 The Ingredients of Life (1 hrs)
1.3.2 Living Machinery (1 hrs)
1.3.3 Challenges of Life in the Sea (1 hrs)
1.3.4 Perpetrating life (1 hrs)
1.3.5 The Diversity of Life in the Sea (1 hrs)
Concept #2. The Organisms of the Sea (8 hrs)
2.1 Thee Microbial World in the Sea
2.1.1 Prokaryotes (1 hrs)
2.1.2 Unicellular Algae (1 hrs)
2.1.3 Protozoans (1 hrs)
2.2 Plant-like
2.2.1 Multicellular Algae (1 hrs)
2.2.2 Flowering Plants (1 hrs)
2.3 Interesting Marine Animals
2.3.1 Marine Animals Without a Backbone (1 hrs)
2.3.2 Marine Fishes (1 hrs)
2.3.3 Marine Reptiles, Birds and Mammals (1 hrs)
Concept #3. Marine Ecosystems (8 hrs)
3.1 An Introduction to Marine Ecology (1 hrs)
The organization of communities, major marine lifestyles and environments and the flow of energy and
materials.
3.2 Intertidal Zone (1 hrs)
Between the tides, the communities of the rocky shore and soft-bottom intertidal
3.3 Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea (1 hrs)
Origins and types of estuaries, physical characteristics of estuaries, estuaries as ecosystems and
human impact on estuarine communities.
3.4 Continental Shelf (1 hrs)