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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: Drought and Air Quality Instructional VideoPbs Learning Media: Earth System: Drought and Air Quality Instructional Video
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9th - 10th
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Instructional Videos
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1290L
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Pbs Learning Media: Earth System: Drought and Air Quality

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This video segment adapted from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center discusses how a drought can have negative effects locally, for example by increasing the number of forest fires, and also globally, for example by impacting air quality thousands of miles away.

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droughts

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drought effects, water shortage, earth systems, pbs learningmedia: earth system: drought and air quality, teachers' domain, wgbh, drought air quality, moisture deficiency, drought

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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