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Thirsty Planet: Exploring Water Scarcity
In this introductory segment, host Bobby Donohue introduces water scarcity and the need for clean drinking water. He highlights challenges faced by communities without access to clean water and discusses innovative solutions. The segment...
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GCSE Biology - What is the Carbon Cycle? What is the Water Cycle? Cycles Explained #88
Carbon and water cycles both fully explained for your exams.
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Water Is Everywhere
Dr. Forrester talks about the many uses of water. She will talk about water treatment plants. Dr. Forrester will also brainstorm with your student how to conserve water.
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Hydroelectricity
Dr. Forrester talks about hydrologists and explains that a hydrologist is a scientist who studies the movement, quality, and distribution of water. She also explains how water can be used to produce electricity.
Professor Dave Explains
The Aquatic Environment: Marine and Freshwater
Water covers 70% of the surface of the Earth, and serves as home to an incredible variety of living organisms. Most of that water is salty, or marine, while some is freshwater, and it is in constant motion through the hydrologic cycle....
The Guardian
How the Amazon has started to heat the planet
The Amazon absorbs huge amount of CO2 and helps to cool the world, but recent studies have shown the rainforest is approaching a tipping point, with profound implications for the global climate and biodiversity. The section in Brazil,...
Curated Video
The Amazing Water Cycle: Exploring the Journey of Water
In this video, students learn all about how water moves below, on, and above ground to make the water cycle. We learn all sorts of new vocabulary words such as condensation and precipitation. Water changes forms, but the water we see...
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Energy from the Sun
Energy from the Sun describes how life on Earth depends upon energy from the sun by providing examples of dependence.
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Types of Precipitation
Types of Precipitation distinguishes between the various forms of precipitation, including rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail.
Lingokids
Curiosity Time with Libby: Water Everywhere
Coach Libby helps Lisa discover where water come from before it enters a house and where it goes afterwards.
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The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle identifies and illustrates each component of the water cycle.
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The Water Cycle and the Ocean
The Water Cycle and the Ocean explains the water cycle by describing the basic components of the water cycle, including the ocean’s important connection to Earth’s water reservoir.
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The Hydrosphere
The Hydrosphere discusses the concept of the hydrosphere and highlights its importance by breaking down the four forms of water and how they all work together in the water cycle.
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Deforestation
Deforestation explains how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence the environment and daily lives of people by analyzing the causes and effects of and solutions for deforestation.
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High Five Facts - Deforestation
This video explores five fun facts about deforestation.
Weatherthings
Stratus Clouds
Stratus Clouds are part of the water cycle. They are stratified, with soft edges, wider than they are tall, and found at mainly 3 different heights in the atmosphere. They can be made of water droplets or ice crystals, and some create...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was a powerful, devastating and deadly storm, especially for Florida, in 2022. With wind over 150mph, rain over 20” in some areas, and storm surge over 12 feet, Ian impacted millions of people, while taking over 150 lives....
Weatherthings
Pileus Clouds
Pileus Clouds are also known as Cap Clouds or Scarf Clouds. They form over fast-growing cumulus or Cumulonimbus Clouds, in quiet or stormy weather, as a wispy, smooth band of clouds, curved like a contact lens.
Weatherthings
Lenticular Clouds
Lenticular Clouds are also known as Lenticularis because they are shaped like a lens. They are common over mountains where air is forced to rise and sink, forming smooth clouds above the mountains and downwind of the mountains. They also...
Weatherthings
Hurricane Andrew, 1992
Hurricane Andrew was one of the few hurricanes to strike the United States as a Category 5. At the time, in 1992, it was the most expensive natural disaster in the nation's history. After devastating Homestead, Florida, and surrounding...
Weatherthings
Great Miami Hurricane of 1926
The Great Miami Hurricane of 1926 was the second strongest hurricane to strike Miami at that time. It was a Category 4, landing on September 18, 1926, after battering the Bahamas. The tremendous impact in Miami and South Florida was not...
Weatherthings
Cumulus Clouds
Cumulus Clouds can fill the sky, in any season, anywhere on Earth, in different sizes, shapes, colors, heights and combinations. They bubble upward, looking like cotton balls or cauliflower. Cumulus clouds accumulate water or ice, and...
Weatherthings
Bomb Cyclone
A Bomb Cyclone is a middle-latitude low pressure storm system. It must have falling air pressure, measured by a barometer, losing at least 1 millibar per hour for 24 hours. When the pressure in a storm falls, the wind increases. You hear...
Weatherthings
Atmospheric River
Moisture, or water vapor in air, that is concentrated in a narrow band more than several hundred miles wide, and extends across oceans or continents for sometimes thousands of miles, is known as an Atmospheric River. In the Pacific...