Water Life

Name: S01:E17 - The Frontier of the Sea
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 29 min 12 s

Season 1 Episode 17 - The Frontier of the Sea

30 min

TV-G

Documentary

Sand and water make a good combination. When the tide goes out a micro cosmos awakens with thousands of inhabitants.

Audio Languages: English

Subtitles: English

S01:E01 - Water Planet

We are the planet Earth, in spite of the fact that the greater part of the surface is covered by water.

S01:E02 - The Wandering Water

Life in our planet depends on the hydrological cycle.

S01:E03 - Where Water Is Born

A layer of vapour surrounds the whole planet.

S01:E04 - Liquid Roads

At sunset, in spring, the mountainsides are a silvery colour.

S01:E05 - The Quiet Flow

After travelling a lot of kilometres the river changes the landscape.

S01:E06 - Soup of Life

They are the great stores of nature. The basis of everything is the little algae, diet of lots of molluscs, insects, crustaceans and fish.

S01:E07 - Dark Water

Water is the universal dissolvent. It gets into everything carving abysses, canyons or karsts.

S01:E08 - Useful Water

Man has designed mechanisms to supply himself with water when it is scarce.

S01:E09 - Water's Skin

This is the frontier between two worlds, the water’s surface.

S01:E10 - Protective Water

With the arrival of winter, the landscape becomes a frozen desert.

S01:E11 - Borrowed Water

Rain forms temporary pools and lagoons that dry out with the arrival of summer.

S01:E12 - Fleeting Water

By its absence or its presence water marks life, the strategies for survival of animals and plants.

S01:E13 - Jungle Water

Humidity monopolises the atmosphere. Water overflows everywhere and more than half of the rain goes back to the clouds by the transpiration of the leaves.

S01:E14 - Salt Forests

The salt forests are one of the most fascinating ecosystems. Trees with roots in the water forming galleries of branches where all kinds of creatures find refuge.

S01:E15 - Kingdom of Tides

Estuaries have the capacity to provide food for billions of living beings.

S01:E16 - Extreme Water

Apart from the sea, there are salty waters where the living conditions are exceptionally hard, like the salt mines, the salt marshes and other extremely saline places.