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Animated hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4588149.stm
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
