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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkZion Natural History Association
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Science, Life Sciences, History-Social Science and 7 additional..The Zion Natural History Association (ZNHA) is a non-profit organization established in 1931 to support education, research, pub...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWMAP: The First Detailed Full Sky Picture of the Oldest Light in the Universe
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth's Resources, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Physics and 2 additional..This site allows users to study maps and read a description about the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has mad...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWMAP Glossary of Technical Terms
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth's Resources, Physics, Chemistry, Earth & Space ScienceThis glossary of terms is associated with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotrophy Probe (WMAP).Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWindows to the Universe: The Greenhouse Effect
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Cells, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and 4 additional..At this site, users can read a basic explanation of the greenhouse effect, which is accompanied by a diagram illustrtating the c...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWind-Driven Ocean Currents
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Life Sciences and 7 additional..In this activity, students create a model ocean over which "wind" will be blown, and observe the relationship between the wind a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWind-Driven Circulation and the Ekman Balance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Physics and 2 additional..Materials presented here describe how the Ekman theory of wind-driven circulation in ocean basins was confirmed by measurements ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Do Ice Ages Occur? - Part 2
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Evolution and Adaptation, Our Solar System and 4 additional..This document provides an explanation of the factors that are thought to drive the growth and retreat of continental glaciers wh...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Do Ice Ages Occur? - Part 1
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth and 7 additional..This document discusses possible factors that contributed to the formation of massive continental glaciers during four periods o...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Are Deserts Dry?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, Earth's Resources, Physics and 2 additional..The deserts of the world today are not the deserts of the planet's past. Fossilized hippopotamus and elephant bones tell us that...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhere's Phyto? An Investigation of Phytoplankon in the Marine Biosphere
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Cells, Science, Life Sciences, Classification and 5 additional..As part of this activity, students examine the effects of light and temperature on the phytoplankton population. Using ocean col...Views: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Website / HyperLink
When Volcanoes Blow Their Top
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, History-Social Science, Earth's Resources and 4 additional..This lesson focuses on the effects of volcanic eruptions on atmospheric chemistry. Students will use the internet to acquire dat...Views: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is the Big Bang Theory?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Physics, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesAstronomer Jonathan Keohane explains and presents evidence for the Big Bang Theory in this "Ask a High Energy Astronomer" questi...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is Solar Activity? Space Science Workbook
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Science, Our Solar System, Earth's Resources, Nuclear Energy and 3 additional..These classroom activities cover topics such as sunspots, the solar wind, magnetic storms, auroras, satellite design, and impact...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is Happening to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Physics and 2 additional..This site discusses the loss of ice from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which has been observed for the last thirty years. Topics...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is Gravity
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Force & Motion, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Earth's Resources and 3 additional..This resource provides an explanation of gravity, the weakest of the four universal forces. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitatio...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is A Desert?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems and 3 additional..Approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface is desert, arid land with meager rainfall that supports only sparse vegetati...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Are the Physical Effects of Glaciers?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth's Resources, Physics and 2 additional..This text explains how glaciers scour and grind the Earth's surface, and about the sorts of deposits they leave behind. Emphasis...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWelcome to the World of Multiwavelength Astronomy - The Multiwavelength Universe
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, The Universe, Earth's Resources and 5 additional..Users can read and view imagery that explains objects in our universe that produce a vast range of radiation with wavelengths ei...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeather Changing Waves Chartered from Space
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Electricity & Magnetism and 7 additional..This article explains how the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite has been used to track large-scale ocean waves called Rossby waves. This ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWashington, DC Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, Earth's Resources, Physics and 2 additional..Located in Camp Springs, Maryland, the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) produces volcanic ash advisories and ash forecast and...Views: 0Favorites: 0