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Ck 12: Earth Science: Surface Ocean Currents
Describes how wind patterns and other factors cause ocean surface currents. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Deep Ocean Currents
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How different densities of water drive ocean currents.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Introduction to Groundwater
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes groundwater and explains how aquifers form.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Introduction to Groundwater
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains what groundwater is, aquifers, recharge, and fossil water.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Composition of the Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the gases that the atmosphere is made out of.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Circulation in the Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the convection cells present in our atmosphere.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the fronts that occur when two air masses collide.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers seafloor spreading and the mechanism for continental drift.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers seafloor spreading and the mechanism for continental drift.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Wind Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How winds form ocean waves.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was refined.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Volcanoes at Plate Boundaries
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Fossilization
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Five methods that create fossils.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Ocean Ocean Convergent Plate Boundaries
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries and oceanic plate subduction.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Ocean Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Ocean Continent Convergent Plate Boundaries
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Mountain Building
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How mountains are formed as a result of plate tectonic processes.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Mountain Building
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How mountains are formed as a result of plate tectonic processes.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Lunar Eclipses
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discover how lunar eclipses occur.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Impact of Continued Global Warming
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How continued global warming will impact the environment.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Global Wind Belts
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how regional differences in solar radiation create global wind belts.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Geologic Time Scale
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the geologic time scale is divided.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
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Ck 12: Earth Science: Extinction and Radiation of Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how species die out and how new ones evolve to fill the vacant niches.