[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains British Isle questions indicating that student has prior knowledge of British geography, rainfall, temperatures and population. It is intended as an Activote exercise.

Basic information on the rainforests include a definition, the strata, the animals, their location, rainfall, temperature and importance. Content also includes animal printouts, quizzes, a puzzle, and math activities.

There has been 5,741 recorded rainfall triggered landslides worldwide between 2007-2013. Watch this animation by NASA that shows how rainfall over a slope causes ground saturation that triggers a landslide. Also, examine an annotated...

"What are the native land mammals of Antarctica? Do you know what Nanatuks are? Did you realize that if you use rainfall as a measure, Antarctica is by definition a desert?" Find the answers to these questions and more in this...

When you think of environmental challenges facing the world, the first things that come to mind might be global warming, or loss of biodiversity, since these are often in the newspapers. A serious problem that you may not have heard...

Informative site containing facts and insights about the African region of the Sahara. Explore the countries, people, and economy of this fascinating region, the largest desert in the world. Country closeups detail interesting and...

Engaging site containing information about the region of Africa known as the Sahel. Visit this site to learn about the people, economy, and countries of the Sahel. Country closeups detail interesting and helpful facts about animal life,...

Explore the weather in states and cities across the United States. Two maps with accompanying graphs are provided. The first indicates the number of comfortably warm summer days a place has and the second shows the temperature and how...

Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.

Provides large colorful maps of climate data about each continent for the current week, month, or previous quarter.

Travel with your students on a Virtual Field Trip to learn about Temperate Forest Biomes. You will also discover many informative and interactive websites.

Precipitation affects many aspects of our lives, from drinking water and food to devastating rain or snow storms. NASA gathered information from satellites to study factors that influence precipitation. View these narrated and unnarrated...

Our Africa is a project that allows the children of Africa to film their lives and their country the way they see them. This section describes the varied climate of Africa and includes videos on agriculture, the Kalahari Desert, and...

A look at the climates and related statistics for many cities and areas in Australia.

A collection of maps of Yemen from the Perry-Castaneda Collection offering political maps, historical maps, relief maps, and thematic maps.

A collection of resources--pictures, maps, data, glossary--about water and the water cycle.

This site has detailed information on the climate and environment of Mexico. It discusses environmental problems such as flooding, erosion, and soil destruction as well.

This homepage provides links to precipitation and temperature maps of Mexico.

This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn the science of flash flooding.

NASA tracked rainfall and soil moisture for a three-month period in 1993 to confirm that these rain patterns were indeed a monsoon. Watch this animation to see the relationship between soil moisture and rainfall in the Southwest U.S. By...

Students discover that variation in plants allows some varieties to survive in near-drought conditions. Next, students learn that different types of rabbits prefer to eat different varieties of plants. Students make the connection...

European settlement patterns were influenced by geographic conditions such as access to water, harbors, natural protection, arable land, natural resources and adequate growing season and rainfall. Examine a variety of primary sources to...

A description of the extreme climate of the Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, as well as the windiest. It is also the highest continent, and considered to be a desert as it has little rainfall. Includes information about the...

European settlement patterns were influenced by geographic conditions such as access to water, harbors, natural protection, arable land, natural resources and adequate growing season and rainfall. Examine a variety of primary sources to...