Tertiary Catalogue

Series: Life in the Sea


3 x 3 Basic Rules

3 x 3 Basic Rules

This seminal program is widely suitable for senior level primary science, lower secondary science and at an introductory level in Marine Studies university courses. It looks at the basic lifestyles of organisms in the sea. The first three...Show More
5 Critical Habitats

5 Critical Habitats

In the sea life is everywhere, but five habitats are like underwater cities. They are coral reefs, mangroves, salt marshes, sea grass beds and kelp forests. They provide safety, food, and a nursery for the young of many species. Yet they are in...Show More
Adapt or Die

Adapt or Die

In order to survive, every form of life needs to be adapted to its habitat. A ‘habitat’ is the environment or place where an organism lives. And being ‘adapted’ means being well suited or fitted to live there. Otherwise there is no future...Show More
An Aquarium in Space

An Aquarium in Space

In the solar system only earth has life, and clearly that has been made possible because we have oceans of liquid water. But why only on earth? And what are the factors that have made earth’s oceans hospitable to life? If you set up an...Show More
Climate Change's Deadly Trio

Climate Change's Deadly Trio

The deadly trio of climate change in the sea is warming water, oxygen depletion and ocean acidification. This programme looks at how these are affecting the underwater world. Creatures are reacting in different ways, from migrating to cooler...Show More
Estuaries

Estuaries

Estuaries… many of us live on or near an estuary and maybe use it for boating or fishing or swimming, or even just for the view. Estuaries are often at the heart of coastal cities. But what’s their story? What’s happening under the water...Show More
Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis supplies all oxygen for life, and it began in the sea. Amazingly, it all relies on one basic kind of chemical reaction that was achieved over two billion years ago by cyanobacteria, and cyanobacteria living as endosymbionts in...Show More
Plankton

Plankton

Plankton are really important. The fish and almost everything else you can see in the ocean are only about ten percent of what is really there. Hordes of tiny organisms, so small it takes a microscope to see most of them, are the biggest biomass...Show More
Rocky Shores and Reefs

Rocky Shores and Reefs

This programme looks at how rocky shores and shoreline reefs are formed, explains the three zones of a coastline, and examines the fauna and flora that live on on the coastline.
Six Common Body Plans

Six Common Body Plans

Life in the Sea explains the distinguishing features of the six most common phyla - from the basic body plans of sponges to the sophisticated anatomy of the chordates. The key points of each body plan are explained and how they equip their owners...Show More
The Vital Nutrients

The Vital Nutrients

Life in the sea around Australia seems to be rich. Yet in terms of marine biomass Australia is poor. For example some fifty other countries catch more fish than we do. Why are Australian waters less productive? In this programnm, we look at why...Show More
Weird Wonderful Water

Weird Wonderful Water

This programme is about seawater. It is the most important liquid on Earth, not only from its sheer volume, but also because it has remarkable qualities. A few of them, like buoyancy, are common to all liquids - but seawater is also the cradle of...Show More