Earth Sciences

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Your weather report should include current temperature, cloud cover and precipitation conditions around the country, as well as a discussion of regions of high and low air pressure and major fronts, and an explanation of how these relate to the weather.

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Coral Reefs

Biologist Joanie Kleypus studies the living coral that protects coastlines and provides miles of underwater habitat for the abundant marine animal and plant life.

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Memo to M.I.C.E. Concerning C.H.E.E.S.E.

We are considering using a new instrument for measuring the humidity in the air, but we need to determine if it is reliable. I would therefore like all of you to carry out this test, working in teams of two or three M.I.C.E. each.

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Mission to the Moon

For the orbital motion of the moon, we use the fact that the moon completes one orbit (360°) every 655 hours to set up the proportion h/655 = n/360, where h = the number of hours that have passed and n = the number of degrees that the moon has moved in its orbit.

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Seabooks Inc.

Knowledge of the oceans has always been important to humankind, but we are finding that our survival as a species may depend on that knowledge.

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Weather Patterns

Graph temperatures on a sheet of graph paper to find a pattern.

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Wetlands Web

As an assessment, review the Futures Channel Movie “A Wetlands Refuge,” stopping five or six times as it plays and asking students to write down at least two ways in which the plant or animal pictured at that point interacts with some other plant or animal that lives in the wetlands.

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