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Do you have a question about science? E-mail your question to this California scientist. |
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Ask Dr. Universe a question you've always wondered about. |
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Do you have a question about earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, lakes, or rivers? Try this expert for an answer. |
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Includes biographies, photographs, and drawings of notable women scientists |
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Discover the many worlds of hidden microbes |
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Answers frequently asked questions about earthquakes |
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Includes information on how and where earthquakes occur, first person accounts of earthquakes, and links to other reputable earthquake sites |
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Explains how earthquakes are measured using the Mercalli and Richter scales |
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Explores all facets of earthquakes with great photos, graphics, and activities |
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Explore earthquakes through text, simulations, and photographs. See how buildings are affected by earthquakes. |
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Explore differences between kinds of caves |
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Explains the basics of the earth's lithosphere. |
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| Learn all about rocks and geology, the science of rocks, how rocks can be identified, how they are formed, and how they change over time. | |
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Nature Unleashed investigates what we know and are still learning about nature’s terrifying power by focusing on four types of disasters—earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornadoes. |
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Delve into the earth's interior, learn about its tectonic plates and their movements, and discover how mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are formed. |
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This is a Library of weather, climate, and Earth system imagery. This site includes photographs and illustrations of clouds, lightning, tornadoes, floods, storms, air pollution, and more which can be used free of charge by students. Every photo is clearly labeled and described. |
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Do you know who invented the dishwasher, or which came first—radar or sonar? Check out this site. |
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Test your knowledge of math and science as you work your way to the million dollar level! |
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Discover the art and biology of the Costa Rican rainforest and "solve a mystery" with clues from ancient treasures |
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There are games, pictures, stories and other activities on this site for Middle School Students. |
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Covers human's three million year journey from the treetops of Africa to civilization |
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Information about Gregor Mendel and his relationship to the discovery of genetics. This Museum Exhibit also illustrates how art has been affected by genetics. |
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The Topic Selection Wizard: Gives you a brief survey and recommends Science Faire projects that are best for you. |
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This collection has a large amount of images of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes. |
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A general science site maintained by the United States Governement. It searches over 40 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results. |
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Are you interested in science or do you have a science question you need answered? This site just might be for you. It explains lots of things in our world. |
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Check out the gallery of world records in science and meet some of the way cool scientists who are on the edge studying this stuff! |
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This award winning site explains how things work |
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An introduction to many branches of science such as geology, astronomy, genetics, marine biology, and paleontology. Click on the Stuff to Do links to find activities. This site is by the American Museum of Natural History. |
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This is the student gateway to all the resources of NASA. |
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This is an outstanding site that has interactive programs on lots of science subjects. It's worth a look. |
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This PBS site is a media literacy Web site for young people that encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers. |
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The American Museum has lots of information on a variety of science subjects. It includes games as well as great graphics and text. |
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This website spotlights people and the discoveries they made. It also has some interesting activities that you can do ---about the brain, technology, earthquakes --- and illustrates how ideas have changed from 1900 until today |
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These toys are easy and inexpensive to make. |
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Do you know who invented the dishwasher, or which came first—radar or sonar? Check out this site. |
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This site tells about the processes involved with the manufacture and assembly of simple to complex products. |
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This introductory website shows how 40 different products are made and includes many video clips. |
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Here you can explore how gases are manufactured and used across a huge range of products in everyday life. |
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A weekly magazine which spotlights news stories about science. It has an archive of all news stories. |
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Explores the relationship of science to sport through interactive activities and an archive of answers to questions |
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This site gives understandable answers to questions about volcanoes |
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An online book which explains plate tectonics |
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This online book describes the background, eruption of, and present activity of this volcano in Oregon |
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This online book describes the background, eruption of, and present activity of Hawaiian Volcanoes. |
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Lots of information about volcanoes, including 'Ask-A-Volcanologist' |
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Explore earthquakes through text, simulations, and photographs. Experiment with how different kinds of volcanoes erupt. |
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This site has information on the many aspects of water, such as the properties of water, the earth's water cycle, etc. The site includes pictures, data, and maps. |
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Updated August 28, 2009