Science
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- Neanderthals on Trial
- Website is companion to NOVA documentary which explores the ancestral roots of humans.
- 1202
- Build Your Own Weather Instruments
- Provides links to directions for building rain gauges, anemometers, psychrometers, wind streamers, temperature graphs, and rainfall graphs.
- 1203
- DiscoverySchool.com: Build Your Own Weather Station
- Instructions to build the following instruments, rain gauge, barometer, wind vane, anemometer and a psychrometer.
- 1211
- Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
- Contains a list of the most frequently asked questions about hurricanes.
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- Bureau of Meteorology, Australia - Surviving Cyclones
- Provides information and graphics about the formation, severity, and dangers of cyclones. Includes preparedness and safety procedures, and emergency services contact information.
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- Hurricanes Ahead
- Owlie helps kids understand what hurricanes are, and what they should do if they are coming toward you. [PDF]
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- Kids Crossing: Look out for Dangerous Weather
- Offers a hurricane survival story, and safety tips.
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- Previously Asked Questions: Tropical Weather
- Contains questions with their answers on tropical storms.
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- Weather Wiz Kids: Hurricanes
- Contains what a hurricane needs to form, stages of a hurricane, and safety tips.
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- WeatherQuestions.com: What Causes Hurricanes?
- A description of the roles of water vapor, sea surface temperature, rainfall, and wind shear in the formation of hurricanes.