Topics

Welcome to GeoZoo’s Topics section. The Topics, World, Glossary and Reference sections combined comprise GeoZoo's Biopedia, which supports the species (and other taxons) accounts in the Life section.

This page simply explains how everything is organized and features links to various articles, which are organized into two primary categories...Introductory Series and Other Articles.

Introductory Series

GeoZoo's Topics section will eventually include hundreds of articles, beginning with a series of series currently under construction. The best place to start is at the beginning, with this twelve-article series...

This series is then essentially repeated, with a different focus. For example, there's a similar series focusing on animals, while another one explores plants. Additional series take still closer looks at various groups of plants and animals.

Which articles are finished?

= At least 90% finished
= This article isn't finished, but it still has a significant amount of content, so GO ahead and check it out.
X = Even the remaining articles may have some worthwhile content - text, pictures, links to videos, etc.

The table below lists links to 123 articles in the Introduction to Animals series. There are twelve articles in each series except Invertebrates, which features a single introductory article, plus related articles about Marine Inverbrates and Worms.

The top series is the animals section is Animals (represented by Ani in the 2nd row of the table below), followed by Vertebrates (Ver) and Invertebrates (Inv). Additional vertebrate series focus on mammals (Mam), birds (Bird), reptiles (Rep), amphibians (Amp) and fish (Fis). Three series focus on invertebrates: Arthropods 101 (Art), Insects 101 (Ins) and Mollusks 101 (Mol). If you're confused, just click this link, then look on the right side of the page; it's actually much simpler than the explanation you're reading right now.

Introductory Series: Animals
	Ani	Ver	Mam	Bir	Rep	Amp	Fish	Inv	Art	Ins	Mol
Introduction	X	X					X	X	X	X	X
Classification	X	X		X			X		X	X	X
Homes	X	X		X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Morphology	X	X		X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Physiology	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Locomotion	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Diet	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Behavior	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Reproduction	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Ecology	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
Evolution	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
People	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X

The table on the left features links to three series of articles focusing on plants: Plants 101 (Pla), Conifers 101 (Con) and Flowering Plants 101 (Flo).

More series will likely be added, focusing on more plant and animal groups, along with other kingdoms (e.g. fungi)...but please be patient; this is an enormously complex and time consuming project.

If you’re really ambitious, you might even check out GeoWorld’s introductory series (10 articles), which includes articles about the biosphere (the sphere of life) and Gaia, the living planet.

Other Articles

A series of articles about plant and animal names is closely allied with the introductory series described above.

Understanding names like flower, grass, grain, pine, palm, bovid, cat, canid, cetacean, hawk, viper, bass, cichlid and shellfish can be a big help as you explore the plant and animal kingdoms. A good place to start is Names.

Another article worth checking out is Symmetry.