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Water Cycle Webquest Links
Weather Instrument Webquest Links
- Questions 4- 6
- The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission that will provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. Here is an introductory video to give you a sense of what it will do and why the science behind the mission is so important:http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/gpm-freshwater-connection
- Questions 7 - 8
- In order to understand precipitation, we need to step back and take a look at the bigger picture. Let’s follow a molecule of water as it makes its way through the water cycle in this short animation: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/tour-water-cycle
- Questions 9 - 12
- Read the article titled “The Water Cycle” in the following link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Water/
- Questions 13 - 16
- Now that you have the feel for how water is able to move through the land, the air, and the oceans, let’s learn more about how it is able to distribute both water and heat as it moves through the water cycle: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/earths-water-cycle
- Now that you have the feel for how water is able to move through the land, the air, and the oceans, let’s learn more about how it is able to distribute both water and heat as it moves through the water cycle: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/earths-water-cycle
- Questions 17 - 19
- The ocean is vital for moving both water and heat energy through the water cycle. Here you will see actual NASA data sets that have been put into animations and positioned on a globe to help you visualize how solar energy drives the water cycle. Consider the fact that the ocean heats up more slowly than the land- as you can see in the first and second visualization- but it also retains the heat that it absorbs from the sun much longer. In the final visualization, you will see how the sea surface temperature changes over a four-year period. http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/water-cycle-heating-ocean
- Questions 20 - 25
- The next website will focus on how evaporation and winds combine to move water from oceans to land. It shows how Earth’s systems interact with each other with actual data: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/water-cycle-steaming-air
- The next website will focus on how evaporation and winds combine to move water from oceans to land. It shows how Earth’s systems interact with each other with actual data: http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/water-cycle-steaming-air
- Questions 26 - 31
- We know that almost everything needs freshwater to survive. Did you also know that we use freshwater to generate electricity, make computer chips, and to produce most of the items we use on a daily basis? Go to this site and poke around to learn more about what freshwater is used for in our everyday lives. You can find out how much water is used in your state as well as find out more about the water in the area that you live in. This data is only available for the United States on this website: http://www.epa.gov/WaterSense/our_water/water_use_today.html
- Questions 32 - 38
- To finish off this portion of the webquest, sit back and enjoy this video that sums up many of the content you focused on in this section:http://gpm.nasa.gov/education/videos/water-water-everywhere
Weather Instrument Webquest Links
- Use this website to answer questions 1-6: http://climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.instruments
- Use this website to answer question 7: http://weather.cod.edu/sirvatka/instruments.html
- Use this website to answer question 8: http://www.nwclimate.org/guides/meteorological-instrumentation/
- Use this website to answer question 9: http://climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.WatchesWarnings
- Use this website to answer questions 10 & 11: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/doppler/how.html