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Earthquakes: Cause and Effect

September 4, 2016 By Janice VanCleave

Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Earth Science, earthquakes Tagged With: body waves, earthquake, friction, locked faults, Love Waves, Moment Magnitude Scale (MMS), primary waves, Raleigh waves, Richter scale, secondary waves, seismic waves, slip-fault earthquake, surface waves, tectonic plates

Adventures in Barrow, Alaska

August 30, 2016 By Janice VanCleave

For more information about my south pole adventures see: Follow Janice and Randy to the South Pole. photo credit: 阿拉斯加巴羅-鯨骨拱門-20130530-賴鵬智攝-1 via photopin (license) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barrow Alaska, Earth Science Tagged With: Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic Ocean, Barrow, Ernest Hemingway, horizon, Inupiat Eskimos, latitude, North Pole, permafrost, polar bears, South Pole, summer, Sun path, winter

Five Oceans of the World

August 17, 2016 By Janice VanCleave

Which is Bigger? Which is Deeper? About 71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The largest bodies of water are called oceans and there are five ocean in all. Books published prior to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Earth Science, oceans Tagged With: Antarctica Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Barrow Alaska, blubber, Challenger Deep, Diamantiana Deep, Diamantina trench, Indian Ocean, Mariana Trench, muktuk, Oceans for Every Kid correction, Pacific Ocean, permafrost, Puerto Rico Trench, South Sandwich Trench, Southern Ocean

What are Meridians?

April 21, 2016 By Janice VanCleave

Model of Earth's Meridians

Compare and Contrast Longitude and Latitude The model in the "Around" activity below compares Earth's meridians, which are also called lines of longitude. Meridians (lines of longitude) circle the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Earth Science, Featured, meridians Tagged With: Eastern Hemisphere, Great Circles, Lines of Longitude, Meridians, model, Prime Meridian, Western Hemisphere

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