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Season 7

Season 7

June 20, 1966·17 épisodes
Épisodes · 17
E1

The Sun

An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.

Jun 20, 1966
E2

Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge

The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.

Jun 27, 1966
E3

Air And Water Pollution

This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are poured into air and water than these elements have capacity to deal with.

Jul 4, 1966
E4

The Battle Against Biting Insects

An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.

Jul 11, 1966
E5

Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made

This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.

Jul 18, 1966
E6

The Physics Of Sailing

The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific efforts to understand why sailing ships do what they do.

Jul 25, 1966
E7

Epidemics

Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.

Aug 1, 1966
E8

Summer Storms

A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.

Aug 8, 1966
E9

Fishing And The Splake

Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.

Aug 15, 1966
E10

The Value Of Our Parks

This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.

Aug 22, 1966
E11

Forest And Fires

This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.

Aug 29, 1966
E12

Water On The Level

There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.

Sep 5, 1966
E13

Galapagos: Darwin

First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.

Sep 4, 1966
E14

Galapagos: The Islands

A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.

Sep 11, 1966
E15

Galapagos: New Beings

An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding group of a plant or animal species can give rise to a number of new species

Sep 18, 1966
E16

Galapagos: Ways Of Survival

Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.

Sep 25, 1966
E17

Galapagos: Living Laboratory

This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.

Oct 2, 1966