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Ucar: Bubbles on Bottles
Students observe that a change in the temperature of air can impact the size of a bubble placed on a bottle that is cooled and/or heated.
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Ucar: Modeling How Air Moves
In this activity, middle schoolers use models to observe that air is a fluid that flows due to temperature-driven density differences.
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Ucar: The Sun
Learn about the sun, the center of our solar system and the closest star to Earth.
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Ucar: Learn: The Greenhouse Effect
A detailed overview of the greenhouse effect, with explanations about Earth's atmosphere gases referred to as greenhouse gases, and the factors that influence the heat-trapping ability of a greenhouse. All information is reinforced...
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Ucar: Co2: How Much Do You Spew?
Young scholars analyze the energy consumption of a hypothetical household to determine the amount of carbon dioxide they are adding to the atmosphere each year.
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Ucar: Why the Polar Vortex Keeps Breaking Out of the Arctic
Why does the Polar Vortex keep breaking out of the Arctic? Surprisingly, warming global temperatures play a role.
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Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.
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Ucar: Make a Tornado
This site is provided for by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Make a tornado or a twister in a jar. The step by step directions give a clear description of how to make these items.
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Ucar: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Find out more about oceanography from space research.
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Ucar: National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: Snow Hydrology
This slide show, developed by Don Cline, describes the effects and importance of snow. Topics covered are snowfall formation, snow cover, blowing snow, snow metamorphism, and snow modeling.
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Ucar: Unidata: Conventional Weather Reports
This resource talks about how the stations report their information. Several examples of how different universities compile the information are provided.
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Ucar: High Altitude Observatory: Aristarchus of Samos (310 230 Bc)
A brief biography and discussion of Aristarchus' theories provided here.
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Ucar: Icy Precipitation
Snowflakes are not the only type of icy precipitation. Find out about other types of ice that fall from the sky.
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Ucar: Cumulus Clouds
View an image of cumulus clouds that are associated with fair or stormy weather.
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Ucar: Atmospheric Chemistry Memory Game
Choose a difficulty level. Then click on the tiles (squares) to reveal pictures of molecules. Try to match two pictures.
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Ucar: Project Skymath: Human and Match in the Infrared
Simply a graphic of a human holding a match. Graphic is taken using a thermal camera showing heat distribution.