EARTH

These pages are all about the earth and things to do with the earth.

Earth History and Evolution and Earth & Atmospheric processes are two of the marine biology first year modules at Bangor University so some of this is stuff we covered. Writting these pages helps me revise the subjects as I am researching, compiling and looking for pictures.

PLATE TECTONICS - movements of the earths crust

GLOBAL WARMING - Global Warming is an important issue and there is a lot of information out there this page includes some of the resources I found.

Earthquakes - What has a slinky toy got to do with earthquakes? Well click here to find out & just for fun visit the slinky toy website too!

Atmosphere, Weather & Clouds - I found some great websites & did lots of flow charts when I was revising for my exams which I stuck on here.

Some interesting websites out there on the WWW about the earth

The earth observatory website belongs to NASA and is brilliant. Includes information on Atmosphere, the Oceans, Land, weather, satellite missions and their value to various terrestrial and marine projects. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Earth Observatory Activities - The same website has activities and experiments run in conjunction with local schools like this one on the damage inflicted by Oil Spill's. Data included to work on this activity helps to the biological health of the ocean outside of six different harbors. Sea-surface temperature data and real-time wave height data are used to see if they influence the placement of new oil terminals. & in the last part students use meteorological data and satellite images to determine weather patterns that lead to drought, and use satellite imagery and drought maps to investigate how crops respond. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/

Geodesy. The earth isnt round ? OK I know you want to know what this is all about. Well so did I - well at least for my exam I did & found this great web site all about the earth, gravity, the geoid and the fact that the earth isnt quite as round as we think.
http://www.geod.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e//geodesy_e.html