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Science Struck: The Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
Find out about the five layers of the atmosphere in this resource which provides loads of information about the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
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Science Struck: Tundra Biome: Info About Its Plants and Animals
Describes the features and characteristics of the tundra biome, the different types, where they are found, their climate and seasonal changes, and their plants and animals.
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Science Struck: Learn All About the Ocean Food Chain
Read about the different predators, consumers, and producers that make up an ocean food chain.
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Science Struck: Different Types of Storms
Provides descriptions of a variety of storm types including wintry ones, ones with no precipitation, and very destructive ones. Discusses weather conditions that lead to these storms, precautions one can take, public alerts, etc.
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Science Struck: The 13 Types of Energy and Their Applications
Read about all the different kinds of potential and kinetic energy. Includes energy formulas and examples of energy applications.
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Science Struck: Well Known Uses of Carbon
Discover the wide variety of ways we use carbon as well as its three allotropes that are found in the natural world - graphite, diamonds, and amorphous carbon.
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Science Struck: Lucy: The First Hominid Skeleton
Read about the archaeologists who discovered the first Hominid skeleton and other ancestors of humans.
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Science Struck: Arabian Desert Facts
Presents interesting information about the Arabian Desert, including its physical geography, climate, plants and animals, their adaptations to the environment, natural resources, and threats to its habitats.
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Science Struck: 5 Creative Solar System Project Ideas Kids Can Try
Detailed descriptions of five solar system science projects for students.
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Science Struck: Theory of Plate Tectonics
A detailed discussion of plate tectonics. Looks at continental drift, types of tectonic plates and plate boundaries, and primary and secondary tectonic plates.
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Science Struck: Examples of Commensalism
Describes examples of commensal relationships in the natural world.
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Science Struck: What Are Ocean Trenches and How Are They Formed?
Around 72 percent of the Earth's surface is found under the oceans. It has always been contributing to the dynamically changing face of the Earth through the tectonic phenomenon occurring at its depths. Such a naturally occurring...
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Science Struck: Inner Transition Metals
Discusses the organization of the periodic table into periods and groups, then looks at where the Lanthanoids and Actinoids are situated, and their properties.
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Science Struck: Noble Gas Configuration
Provides the configuration for each of the six noble gases and explains how to write noble gas configurations. Also explains what pseudo-noble gas configuration is.
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Science Struck: Electron Configuration Chart for the Periodic Table
Explains the theoretical basis of electron configuration and presents a table of all 118 elements with their symbols, number of electrons, and electron configurations.
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Science Struck: Metalloids in the Periodic Table
Discusses the history and organization of the periodic table, where the metalloids fit in, and their properties. Includes color-coded periodic table of elements.
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Science Struck: List of National Symbols of the United States
Provides images and the history of each of the national symbols of the United States.
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Science Struck: Interspecific Competition: Definition, Examples
Interspecific competition in an ecosystem is explained, along with the different ways it can manifest itself. Includes examples in different types of biomes.
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Science Struck: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
Explains the concept of heat transfer and describes conduction, convection, and radiation which are the three modes of heat transfer. Includes formulas, examples, and applications.
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Science Struck: Chemical Change Examples That We See Around Us
Explains what a chemical change is and how to identify one. Provides examples of chemical changes that are often seen in organic and inorganic compounds.
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Science Struck: Limiting Factors in the Desert Ecosystem
Describes conditions in a desert that limit how large populations of species can grow.
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Science Struck: How Does Light Travel Through Space and Other Media?
A detailed discussion of the nature of light, how it can travel through a vacuum, and how the speed of light is affected when light travels through a medium.
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Science Struck: How Was the Earth Created
This resource gives a detailed explanation of the stages that the Earth and the solar system went through beginning with their origins in the Big Bang up to the present time.
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Science Struck: Metamorphic Rock Facts: Types
Presents facts about metamorphic rocks and describes the different types.