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Epa: Endangered Species: Save Our Species Coloring Book
Use this site to create your own picture book of 21 endangered species. As you color each of the pages you can learn about each endangered animals.
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Epa: Student Guide: Greenhouse Effect
Learn the science behind the greenhouse effect.
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Epa: Assessing Health Risks From Pesticides
This site provides information about the active ingredients registered as pesticides. Site discusses toxicology, exposure, dose-response and risk characterization.
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Epa: Asthma and Indoor Environments
This website defines, explains, and exemplifies indoor air pollution and how it significantly contributes to asthma problems.
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Epa: Health Effects of Overexposure of the Sun [Pdf]
This fact sheet provides a quick overview of the major health problems linked to overexposure to UV radiation: skin cancer (melanoma and nonmelanoma), premature aging of the skin and other skin problems, cataracts and other eye damage,...
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Epa: Ground Water and Drinking Water: Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
Learn about the public's drinking water, the oversight agencies that govern it, and what needs to be done in an emergency if it becomes contaminated.
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Epa: Measuring Soil P H
This site has an experiment to find out how to measure the pH of your soil. The soil pH is an important condition that can affect the health of plants and animals.
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Epa: Making a Natural P H Indicator
At this site you will find a step by step process for making a natural pH indicator. One of the main materials you need to have on hand is a red cabbage.
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Epa: Acid Rain
Explore more about acid rain. This is an online experiment to observe "The influence of acid rain on plant growth." Find out how acid rain can damage your plants directly and indirectly.
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Epa: Measuring P H Experiment
This is an activity that deals with acid rain. "This experiment will illustrate how to measure the approximate pH of chemicals in water using a pH indicator." It is easy to follow the comprehensive set of directions.
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Epa: Mercury in Your Environment
Students learn what the forms of mercury are, the sources, how to reduce the releases, and how it affects humans and the environment.
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Epa: Reservoirs: Holding Tanks for Drinking Water [Pdf]
How do people get their water reservoirs for drinking water? This site features an in-depth explanation of this question. Come and check it out.
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Epa: Wetlands Protection
This resource provides information regarding what private citizens can do to slow the rate of wetland loss and to improve the quality of our remaining wetlands.
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Epa: Global Warming Wheel Card [Pdf]
Students construct a Global Warming Wheel Card, a hand-held tool that they can use to estimate their household's emissions of carbon dioxide and learn how they can reduce them.
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Epa: Surf Your Watershed
This resource provides information on watersheds, maps, activities, and links to local watershed information.
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Epa: Coral Reefs
What is a coral reef? Why are Coral Reefs important? What is affecting the health of coral reefs? These questions are answered and more information is provided on this easily readable, comprehensive site.
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Epa: Where Does Your Water Come From? [Pdf]
Where does your drinking water come from? This resource features a clear and concise explanation for this question. This resource will be beneficial to students and teachers.
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Epa: The Water Cycle [Pdf]
An illustrated diagram of the water cycle that students can use for study.
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Epa: Status and Trends of Wetlands in the Us
This interesting resource that discusses the major causes of wetland degradation and destruction and its impact on our life.
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Epa: Chemicals in the Environment
Information summaries on some chemicals and descriptions of how you might be exposed to these chemicals, how that exposure might affect the environment, etc. Please note that this type of information changes rapidly.
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Epa: Measuring the P H of Natural Water
How acidic is your water? "In this experiment, you will measure the pH of natural water located near your home or school."
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Epa: Gulf of Mexico Program: Woodland Cultures (2000 Bc to 1,000 Bc)
This site presents information on the three periods of Woodland Culture. It briefly describes how the Woodland culture began as small villages depending on subsistence farming and hunting. Also describes the move to the mound building...
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Epa: Wetlands and Nature
This concise site discusses the fact that wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, play an integral part in the ecology of the watershed, and also have a role in atmospheric maintenance.
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Chlorinated Hydrocarbons (Organochlorines) Ddt
Read a brief history of the use of DDT in the United States, its effect on wildlife, and the banning of the toxin in 1972 by the EPA.