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A collection of topics and Internet sites compiled to help my students in their scientific inquiries and research. |
Index: Click on the topic.
| Anatomy Animals Biomes Cape Cod Cells |
Ecosystems Extras Fossils Heredity Human Body |
Matter Oceanography Plants Plate Tectonics Space |
Volcanoes Weather |
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Anatomy
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Selected Anatomy Web Sites - A great page that links to other sites about human anatomy. |
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/imse/
lowres/1/anatomy.htm
Animals
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Selected Zoology Web Sites – A great page that links to other sites about zoology (animals). |
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/
terminal/imse/lowres/1/zoology.htm
Biomes and Ecosystems
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These five sites contain excellent information about the world's different biomes. |
Biomes, Habitats, and Ecoregions
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Nearctica is the name of this site. It has a search feature and contends that if you have any natural history or environmental question or curiosity, try this site first. |
| Selected Ecology Web Sites - A
great page that links to other ecology sites. |
Cape Cod
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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research and higher education at the frontiers of ocean science. |
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Cells and Heredity
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Animal Cells - An easy to understand, illustrated site that explains the makeup of animal cells. |
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Cells - Biology4Kids site that gives an excellent explanation of cells with illustrations. |
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Heredity - At this site the concept is explained by: animation, image gallery, video interviews, problems, biographies, and links. |
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Plant Cells - An easy to understand, illustrated site that explains the makeup of plant cells. |
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Selected Cell Biology Web Sites |
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/
imse/lowres/1/cellbiology.htm
Fossils and Geologic Time
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A list of Hot Links to many different dinosaur related sites. |
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The University of Berkeley's Paleontology site. An excellent source of information for any questions dealing with Paleontology. |
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A great site for information about dinosaurs. |
Human Body
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A great page with links to other sites about the human body. |
Matter
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A great page with links to other sites that are all about matter |
Oceanography
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This will link you to a whole page of links to other
oceanography sites. |
Plants
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Selected Botany Web Sites
- A great page that links to other
sites about plants. |
Space
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The Sun - Comparison Activities |
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Astronomy Picture of the Day |
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NASA Library
- An index full of Space related information
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Great pictures
from the National Space Science Data Center
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The Nine Planets
is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific
knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
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Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
All About Plate Tectonics 
Everything about Volcanoes
by the USGS
Location of Volcanoes
Volcanoes.com
has links to volcano locations all around the world. It also has links to
many other great sources for information about volcanoes.
Types of Volcanoes
All About Earthquakes
by the USGS
Earthquakes.com
has some great information about earthquakes and some very helpful links.
Cascades
Volcano Observatory - Maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey, this site
gives specific information about Mount Saint Helens, other volcanic activity,
and a lot of information about volcanoes in general.
Global
Volcanism - A site that constantly monitors worldwide volcanic activity.
Plate
Tectonics - An excellent site that gives detailed information about the
theory of plate tectonics with excellent pictures and diagrams.
Plate
Tectonics
The
Web's Premier Source of Volcano Info - is what this site says. It has
a search feature that should be able to answer just about any question on
volcanoes and plate tectonics.
US Geological Survey
(USGS): Earthquakes for Kids
ThinkQuest:
Plate Tectonics
Putting
Down Roots in Earthquake Country
How
Earthquakes Work
Gander
Academy’s Earthquake Theme Page
USGS Dynamic Earth - The Story of Plate Tectonics
Evidence Supporting Continental Drift
Weather
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This site deals with extreme weather conditions and climatic events. It also has other interesting weather information. |
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/severeweather/extremes.html
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United States Climate Page - every state and its climate. |
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National Hurricane Center's Kid's Page |
Extras
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A site that has an extensive collection of scientists' biographies. |
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Frank Potter's Science Gems. Extensive science resources sorted and searchable. |
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Nearctica is the name of this site. It has a search feature and contends that if you have any natural history or environmental question or curiosity, try this site first. |
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National Geographic Nature's Fury links . |
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The The Exploratorium
has many different facts about magnetism and activities that you can
try. |