Excellent Earth Science Sites! |
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Mineralogy for Kids: Rockin' Internet Site for Learning about Rocks & Minerals |
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Earth Science for Everyone -- Visit this site to learn about the formation of the solar system; the rock cycle including igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks as well as weathering and erosion; volcanoes and other landforms |
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Earth Science Explorer: Visit this virtual museum to learn all about earth topics like plate tectonics, dinosaurs, diversity, and geologic time |
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Volcano World - Find current eruptions, volcano history, volcano adventures and more! |
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Prehistoric Life: Learn about the dinosaurs who ruled the land; explore life with the earliest humans; games, challenges, and puzzles that make learning even more fun! |
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Earthquake! Learn all about them |
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Visit Rocky the Rockhounds site to view videos and find out how rocks form |
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More adventures with Rocky the Rockhound: Learn how some common rocks form |
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Rock Identification Key: follow the key to identify samples of common rocks. And, no, it's not that kind of key! |
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Kids Dig Reed -- An Archaeology Dig at the Reed Homestead Farm |
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All about fossils: what they are, where they are found, how they became fossils, and much more! |
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Getting into the fossil record: please be patient as you work through the pages |
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Animated diagrams of the processes that form and shape the earth, including plate movement, fault movement, earthquake, volcano eruption, and beyond the earth to the solar system |
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Geological Map of Maryland showing periods when rock formed (in millions of years) |
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Maryland Caves, Caverns, and Sinkholes: Find out how they form, find out where to see them in Maryland, view photo galleries of Maryland's Caves |
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Geography4Kids: Earth Structure, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Cycles, Climates, and Food Chains and Webs...it's all here in one great site |
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Digging into Fossils - Learn all the what, where, and how of fossils at this Just for Kids site. |
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The Rainforest: In Search of the Ways of Knowing takes you into the Ituri Forest in Africa. Be sure to ask your guides lots of questions and click on the links whenever the boxes open...there's tons of information about the animals and plants of the rainforest |
