Links for Weather Forecasting Lab

Links for Lab Info:

We started on Monday, April 4th. Daily high & low temperatures and precipitation can be found at Accuweather.com and also here

National weather maps are archived at the NOAA website here as well as here

You can get the daily maps and weather station data from Accuweather.com or from Weather.com

The lab is due, with all questions answered, on Thursday, April 14

Rock Review

Here's some links to information on rocks, igneous, sedimentary and Metamorphic, as well as the rock cycle:

• Science Trek: Rock Groups
• USGS: Identifying Rocks (Rocks 101) - Rocks & Minerals
  Igneous - Sedimentary - Metamorphic
• British Isles Geology Toolkit
• Learner.org: What to look for to identify rock (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
  Helpful Rock Cycle Animation
  Virtual Rock Collection

Identifying Fossils: on-line help

Some links to help you identify the fossils we examined in class:

• Trilobite "mugshots"

• Guide to Green River Fish

• The Museum of Natural History: fossil identification

• The fossil Museum

• Descriptions and images of many, many fossils

• Ammonite identification
• Brachiopod identification & anatomy
• trilobite identification & anatomy
• Orthoceras identification

Video: Dinosaur bone is Porous!

• University of Kansas fossil Identification

• A fossil ID lab with helpful pictures and description

• Fossil Field Kit

Walking with Dinosaurs

Resources for the dinosaur research portion of your paleontological journal project:

• Dinosaurfact.net
  
  
• Smithsonian's Dinosaurs at the National Museum of Natural History

• Dino images at kidsdinos.com

• Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Central

• Dinosauria on-line

• Images of the Dinosaurs of North America

• UK Dinosaurs

• Dinodata: Dinos A-Z

• UCMP Dinosauria

The original Jurassic Park

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote "The Lost World" in 1912. It was made into a silent film in 1925, with state of the art animations from special effects creator Willis O'Brien, who 8 years later would bring King Kong to life.

You can Read Arthur Conan Doyle's original The Lost World for free at Ye Olde Library. You can also watch the trailer for the 1925 silent version on youtube.

The first on film was Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914

You can see a video montage of dinosaur movies on youTube, including the Valley of the Gwangi (Cowboys vs. Dinosaurs).

and rumor has it that there's another sequel being made in the Jurassic Park series.

The original "teaser" trailer for Jurassic park reveals how dinosaurs could (at least in Hollywood), be brought back to life.

Mary Schweitzer, a paleontologist at North Carolina State University, found that even after 68 million years, it is possible that blood and tissue of some dinosaurs had actually been preserved through time, something previously thought impossible...

Coprolite Rocks, Geological Time & Fossils

Some resources for your homework assignments and the upcoming Fossils/Geological history project:

Coprolites & what the minerals inside it mean

Oldest known rocks on Earth (NASA)

Guide to shark tooth identification

==> USGS Guide to Geologic Time

Geologic Time illustrated

Index Fossils

Fossil Identification from University of Kansas

Fossil Identification And Classification

Fossils: Windows to the Past

General Fossil information, lots of links to more info

Mid Term Exam is now posted on Teacherease

If you didn't get your copy of the Earth Science Mid-Term exam, you can download a copy HERE. (Adobe Acrobat),

or send an e-mail to Mr. B to have a copy e-mailed back to you.

NOVA: Deadliest Earthquakes - Tuesday Jan 11, 8 p.m. on PBS

This week on NOVA:

Deadliest Earthquakes

Airing Tuesday
January 11 at 8 pm on PBS
(Check local listings)

In 2010, several epic earthquakes delivered one of the worst annual death tolls ever recorded. The deadliest strike, in Haiti, killed more than 200,000 people and reduced homes, hospitals, schools, and the presidential palace to rubble. In exclusive coverage, a NOVA camera crew follows a team of U.S. geologists as they enter Haiti in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. The team hunts for crucial evidence that will help them determine exactly what happened deep underground and what the risks are of a new killer quake. Barely a month after the Haiti quake, Chile was struck by a quake 100 times more powerful, unleashing a tsunami that put the entire Pacific coast on high alert. In a coastal town devastated by the rushing wave, NOVA follows a team of geologists as they battle aftershocks to measure the displacement caused by the earthquake. Could their work, and the work of geologists at earthquake hot spots around the U.S., one day lead to a breakthrough in predicting quakes before they happen? NOVA investigates compelling new leads in this profound scientific conundrum.

Find the Tectonic Fault
In this seismic image, see if you can locate an unsettling new fault just discovered beneath the Mississippi River.

Earthquakes in the Midwest
Three massive earthquakes struck the American Midwest in 1811-12. Could it happen again?

Watch a Preview
Watch a preview of the program online now.

Remember, most NOVA programs stream on our website the day after our premiere, so if you missed any broadcast, you can catch it at:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/schedule.html

Tsunami!

• (Best Resource) Tsunami information from the Woods Hole Institute - Interactive presentation covering the science of tsunamis, preparedness, research, and historical tsunamis.
• FEMA Information about Tsunamis - how to prepare, what to do
• Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) - Current and past Tsunami warnings
• USGS Tsunami Resources/Links