In this activity, students will build a model to simulate parts of the water cycle. They will be able to recognize and explain the essential elements of the water cycle.
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As Earth’s population increases, human impacts on all the parts of the Earth system also increase. What are these impacts to air, water, land, and life, and why do we refer to our present time as the Anthropocene?
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Discover how a weather front can cause clouds and storms with rain or snow.
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The amount of water vapor in the air is called humidity.
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With visualizations we can see the entire planet from all angles at once. We can see the invisible – such as water vapor in the atmosphere and the way air flows around the world.
NCAR scientist Falko Judt, talks about chaos theory, the butterfly effect, and why we will (likely) never be able to forecast the weather for more than 3 weeks into the future.
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Students match graphs showing aspects of observed climate change with statements that describe the observations.
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