…Wonder Lab exhibit. Moving farther south, we visited the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, where an immense, airy space houses corners with multiple galleries of permanent and…
…which an ice sheet forms at the South Pole. Matthew Huber, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue, said roughly a 40 percent decrease in carbon dioxide occurred…
…first and foremost on the phenomenon of volcanoes, the geologic conditions that cause them, and the risks they pose. Volcanologists at the University of South Florida have helped us frame…
…in the winter. The conventional wisdom is that the south-facing side of the roof is a good place to put solar panels. But very few houses face exact south. This…
…along the fault deforms over time as the two plates move north and south. Figure 1. GeoCoder with block code (left) and a visual representation of two tectonic plates (right)….
…science department chair in the District of Columbia, where she taught for over eight years. In 2010, she traveled to South Africa as a Fulbright Distinguished Teacher, where she studied…
…100 US locations among them and compared the insolation data calculated by Energy3D for a horizontal surface and a south-face vertical surface with 30 years of data collected by the…
…year. We can easily change the latitude and collect a new set of data. Figure 1 shows the global insolation pattern from the North Pole to the South Pole. The…
…Seismic Explorer along the convergent boundary along South America. The earthquake pattern follows the descending plate. Tectonic Explorer is a simulation of an Earth-like planet designed to provide students with…
…geological periods when they formed, as well as the topographic features in a region. Below is a geologic map of Massachusetts. You can see a North-South trend of the bedrock,…