Bookmarks for Unit 4

Lesson 1

Climate Change And Maryland
Maryland Geological Survey: Assateague Island, Worcester County, MD

Lesson 2

USGS Minerals Information: State Minerals Information
State Geologic Maps

Lesson 3

 

Lesson 4

 

Lesson 5

Dustbowl History
Voices from the Dust Bowl Home Page
The Day of the Black Blizzard
Nutrients in Chesapeake Bay-U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
State of the Land -- Analysis Products on Wetlands
Tidal Water and Habitat Quality Monitoring
EPA's Surf Your Watershed

Lesson 6

USFWS Schoolyard Habitat

Lesson 7

USFWS Schoolyard Habitat
USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Division

Lesson 8

Minerals and Mineral Identification
Minerals and Metals at Home!
USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Division
USGS Minerals Statistics and Information

Lesson 9

The Rainforests: III. Important Facts and Information about the Rainforests
The Rainforests: IV. Destruction of the Rainforest
USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Division

Lesson 10

What Is Groundwater?
How Much Do We Depend On Groundwater?

Lesson 11

What Is Groundwater?
Wells and How They Work
Cool Groundwater Activity
Groundwater ABCs

Lesson 12

Fantastic Caverns Science Research Program Worksheet
Visit Us At Fantastic Caverns--The Cave Science Research Program
The Official NPS Mammoth Cave National Park Expanded Page, Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, mammothcave, mammoth cave, Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave, Mammoth Cave, mammoth cave, mammoth cave
U.S. Show Caves Directory
Virtual Cave

Lesson 13

Glacier Bay: Fly-By Theater
Glacier Bay, Alaska, from the Ground, Air and Space
Retreat of the Muir Glacier
Glaciers

Lesson 14

Physical Effects of Glaciers
Glacial Erosion - Processes
Glacier Image Database

Lesson 15

Climatology; Ice Ages
The Ice Age
Ice Ages
Ice Volume Graph
Why are there Ice Ages
Why are there glaciations within long cool intervals?
Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age
CU STUDY OF ICE-AGE SEDIMENT CORES HINT

Lesson 16

Global sea level change: Determination and interpretation
Can Ice Sheets Cause Large, Rapid Changes In Sea Level?
AA&ES - Could Water World Really Happen? - (Global Warming & Sea level rise)
Causes of Changes in Sea Level
Sea Level Changes -

Lesson 17

FATHOMETER IN A BOX
Global Seafloor Topography
Surface of the Earth Poster, Revised March 2000

Lesson 18

Global Seafloor Topography from Satellite Altimetry

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Lesson 20

The ABC's of Plate Tectonics: Buoyancy and Floating Continents
Isostasy

Lesson 21

Collecting Rocks
Rock Cycle

Lesson 22

Geomagnetism Frequently Asked Questions
All About Plate Tectonics: Earth's Plates and Continental Drift.
View what the earth's magnetic field looks like today
The Great Globe Gallery - The Break up of Pangaea

Lesson 23

 

Lesson 24

Maryland Geological Survey: Earthquakes in Maryland
Earthquake Information from the USGS
NEIC: Earthquake Search
SHAKE, RATTLE AND FALL INTO THE OCEAN?
How do Earthquakes Cause Damage? What Influences the Amount of Damage?
Earthquake Info From gldfs.cr.usgs.gov

Lesson 25

Cascade Range Eruptions
Interviews with Volcanologists
The Great Globe Gallery: Discovering Plate Boundaries
Lava Flows Underwater
Introduction to Submarine Volcanoes
Spreading Plate Boundaries
CVO Photo Archives - Mount St. Helens: A General Slide Set
Mount St. Helens Seismicity
CVO Website - Cascade Range Volcanoes - Interactive Imagemap
Volcano World -- The Premier Source of Volcano Info on the Web

Lesson 26

A Science Odyssey: Magnetic bands provide evidence of sea-floor spreading
Harry Hammond Hess [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
Lithosphere Charts main page
Glomar Challenger [This Dynamic Earth, USGS]
Crustal Age
NOAA Total Sediment Thickness Database
A Science Odyssey: Hess proposes sea-floor spreading
The ABC's of Plate Tectonics.: Buoyancy and Floating Continents
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Harry Hess
Lava Flows Underwater

Lesson 27

IRIS DMC: Event Search Form
QUAKES AND PLATES
The Great Globe Gallery - 28
Mountain Maker, Earth Shaker
Earthquake Info From gldfs.cr.usgs.gov
Discovering Plate Boundaries

Lesson 28

WHEN VOLCANOES BLOW THEIR TOP!
Mount St. Helens, Washington
Side Set on Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo
Climate: Cooling
Volcanic Gases and the Origin of the Atmosphere
Gases: Man versus the Volcanoes
Mt Pinatubo eruption - SO2 outgasing

Lesson 29

Plate Movements (Mountain Building)
Shaded Relief Maps of the United States
Regional Landforms GEO_CHAPTER_2_TABLE.HTML

Lesson 30

Geologic Time: Contents
The Talk.Origins Archive: The Age of the Earth FAQs
GEOLOGICAL TIME SCALE
Plate Tectonics: Animated view of plate tectonics
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
YOGI'S Geologic Time Line
The Geology of the Grand Canyon
Making The Geologic Time Scale Real

Lesson 30A

Geologic Time Online Edition
Time and Change/ Using Radioactive Decay to Determine Geologic Age

Lesson 31

Scientific American: Explorations: Dino-Roar: December 15, 1997
POSSIBLE THEORIES ABOUT DINOSAUR EXTINCTION
Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts
Magnetic Anomalies, Plate Boundaries and Meteor Impact Sites Map
Meteor Impact Sites Map
Diagrams of Chicxulub Crater
A Mathematical Model for Mass Extinction
Human Population Growth and the Acceleration of Species Extinction
K-T Boundary Images
Patterns of Extinction

Lesson 32