Earth Science

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Walch Publishing, 2003 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 129 pages
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  • Features NEW teacher demos and lab activities that stimulate scientific inquiry
  • Provides a cornerstone for understanding rocks and minerals, forces shaping the earth, earthquakes and volcanoes, and more
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Contents

Inside the Earth
3
DEMO 7 Observing Crystal Shapes of Minerals
9
Weathering
15
DEMO 1B Saltwater Intrusion into Aquifers
21
Making Waves
27
STUDENT LAB 1 The Progression of Rivers
28
Minerals in Oceans
29
Folded Rock Layers
30
Air Pressure Is Exerted in All Directions
52
Air Pressure and Egg and Bottle
53
Air Pressure and Soda Can
54
Air Pressure Crushes a Can
55
Air Pressure Holds Up a Column of Water
56
DEMD 4B Making an Aneroid Barometer
57
STUDENT LAB 5 Making a Barometer
59
The Weight of Air Pressure
60

Making a Fossil
31
STUDENT LAB 2 Meteors and Craters
32
DEMD 2B Making Charcoala Fossil Fuel
34
Air Occupies Space
35
DEMO 3D Air Has Mass
36
Fire Needs Oxygen
37
Air Is 21 Oxygen
38
Fire Makes Carbon Dioxide
39
Conduction of Heat
40
Radiation of Heat 1
41
Radiation of Heat 2
42
Detecting Heat with a Radiometer
43
Convection
44
Convection
45
DEMO 4O Inversion Layer and Smog
46
STUDENT LAB 3 Making Smog
47
Land Heats and Cools More Quickly Than Water
49
STUDENT LAB 4 Ocean Currents
50
Substances and Specific Heat Capacity
51
Making a Wind Vane
61
Water Vapor
63
DEMO SB Cloud in a Bottle
69
DEMO Bi Making a Simple Spectrometer
75
DEMO S3 Parallax
81
Viewing the Sun and Solar Eclipses
87
Drawing a Planets Orbit
93
Appendix
99
Assessing Laboratory Reports
101
Astronomical Data 1
103
Astronomical Data 2
104
Moons in the Solar System
105
Density of Liquids
106
Temperature Conversion Celsius to Fahrenheit
107
Temperature Conversion Fahrenheit to Celsius
108
Conversions and Constants
109
Glossary
129
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TitleEarth Science
Easy science demos & labs
AuthorThomas Kardos
Editionillustrated
PublisherWalch Publishing, 2003
ISBN0825145007, 9780825145001
Length129 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / General
Science / Earth Sciences / General
  
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