Recommended Websites - for science content knowledge

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Reports on Weather, water, air, and climate issues:
http://www.weather.gov/
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/

Forces of Nature:
http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/index.shtml

Natural Hazards:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/

Climate Changes:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCclimate1.html
Hurricanes
http://whyfiles.org/073hurricane/index.html
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqA.html

What are hurricanes?
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/hurricanes/index.html
http://www.fema.gov/kids/hurr.htm
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Hurricanes/

Dangers of Flooding
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hurricane/inland_flooding.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/hurricanes/hurricanes.html

Damage Reports 1950-1999:  Costs
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/sourcebook/hurricane.html

Tornadoes
About Tornadoes:
http://www.outlook.noaa.gov/tornadoes/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornadoes.html
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornado.htm

Damage Reports 1950-1999:  Costs
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/sourcebook/tornadoes.html

Earthquakes:
What, where, when, and how:
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/equakes/index.html http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/whatearth.html

Plate boundaries:
http://whyfiles.org/094quake/index.php?g=2.txt
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/interior/plate_tectonics.html

Facts:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/facts.php

Richter Scale of Magnitude:
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/magnitude.html

Tsunamis:
http://www.solcomhouse.com/tsunamis.htm
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm

Formation:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/tsunami2.html

Safety:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/tsunami3.html

Land Slides:
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/floods/index.html
http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/landslid/default.htm

Types:
http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/landslid/ls2.htm
http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/geology/a_landslide.html#one

Volcanic Eruptions:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/volcanoes/science.html
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/volcanoes/index.html

Types:
http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/volcanoes/erupts.php
Volcanoes around the world:
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/volcanoes/index.html

Affects on Climate:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vclimate.html
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/sslib/aemf/HDS/chapter_11.htm

Dangers:
http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/mars-trip-st-helens-3.html

Floods:
http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=flood

Facts:
http://www.ucar.edu/communications/factsheets/Flooding.html

Flash Flood:
http://travel.webshots.com/album/560502901LLXGte
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/flood/about.html

Types:
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/flood/type.html

Total Damage 1950-1999
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/sourcebook/floods.html

Wildfires:
What is a wildfire?
http://www.smokeybear.com/wildfire-science.asp

Facts:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/wildfires/wildfires.html
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?topic=fire

Where they occur:
http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/

Assessment:

Volcano quiz:
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001550F/volcanoquiz.htm

Flood quiz:
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/flood/quiz.html

Definitions: http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Article/volcanic-and-geologic-terms