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Anthology

Earth’s atmosphere Bureau of meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/
Find out more about the atmosphere and clouds.
Textbook page/s: 7

Today’s weather

Bureau of meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/
Find out all about meteorology.
Textbook page/s: 18

Measuring natural disasters

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercalli_scale
Find out more about the Mercalli scale.
Textbook page/s: 31
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale
Find out more about the Fujita scale.
Textbook page/s: 31

An Australian earthquake

Newcastle City Council
http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/discover_newcastle/local_history/newcastle_earthquake
More facts about the Newcastle earthquake.
Textbook page/s: 39

How many planets?

The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/pluto_demoted/
Find out how Pluto became classed as a dwarf planet.
Textbook page/s: 43

The Space Shuttle transport system

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/vehicle/index.html
Everything you want to know about space shuttles.
Textbook page/s: 45


Eyewitness Nature's Forces (topic book)

Avalanche The North Ossetia Avalanche
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2273961.stm
Textbook page/s: 31
http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/5/173/2005/nhess-5-173-2005.pdf

Bushfire

The Canberra Bushfire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires
Textbook page/s: 31
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/col/c8075

Cyclone

Cyclone Larry
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/cyclone/about/tc-checklist.shtml
Textbook page/s: 31
http://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/disasters/cyc_history.asp
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1597062.htm
http://www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/initiatives/cyclone_larry/index.aspx
http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/qld/cyclone/tc_larry/

Earthquake

The Pakistan Earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake
Textbook page/s: 31
http://www.ga.gov.au/urban/factsheets/20010919_15.jsp
http://www.thepakistanquake.com/index.html

Flood

The Ethiopian Flood
http://allafrica.com/stories/200608141184.html
Textbook page/s: 31
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5267794.stm
http://www.ethiomedia.com/carepress/dire_dawa_floods.html

Hurricane

Hurricane Katrina
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm
Textbook page/s: 31
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/

Landslide

The Philippines Landslide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,,1711999,00.html
Textbook page/s: 31
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6M6M4P?OpenDocument

Tornado

Central USA Tornadoes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3000795.stm
Textbook page/s: 31
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/safety/tornadoguide.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,85952,00.html

Tsunami

The Asian Tsunami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
Textbook page/s: 31
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2004/asia_quake_disaster/default.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake

Volcanic Eruption

Mount Merapi Volcanic Eruption
http://abcnews.go.com/search?searchtext=%22Mount%20Merapi%22
Textbook page/s: 31
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5058018.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Merapi,_Central_Java
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/?img_id=13538


Weather and Climate (topic book)

Climate in Australia Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/
Find out more about Australia's climate.
Textbook page/s: 9

Rainfall in Australia

Australian Telescope National Facility, CSIRO
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/
Find a daily rainfall map.
Textbook page/s: 11
Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/
Textbook page/s: 11

Clouds in Australia

Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/
Find out more about clouds.
Textbook page/s: 13

Temperatures

http://www.bom.gov.au/
See the latest Marble Bar temperatures.
Textbook page/s: 15

Wind in Australia

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/
Find out more about air pressure systems.
Textbook page/s: 17

Thunderstorms

Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/storms.shtml
Find out more about severe storms.
Textbook page/s: 19
Australian Severe Weather
http://australiasevereweather.com/

Cyclones

Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/cyclones.shtml
Find out about tropical cyclones.
Textbook page/s: 21

Droughts

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/drought.shtml
Find out about droughts.
Textbook page/s: 23

Floods

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/environ/flood.shtml
Find out more about floods.
Textbook page/s: 25

Predicting the weather

http://www.bom.gov.au/
Find out more about the Bureau of Meteorology.
Textbook page/s: 27

Climate change

Climate Action Network Australia
http://www.cana.net.au
Find out about the Climate Action Network Australia.
Textbook page/s: 29


Teacher's Resource Book

Our Planet Earth Rock Gallery
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS-Main.html
Images of rocks and the buildings made from them.
Textbook page/s: 16
Virtual Cave
http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/
Explore caves of all kinds … without going underground!
Textbook page/s: 16
U.S. Geological Survey
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/ask-a-geologist/
Ask real-life geologists questions.
Textbook page/s: 17
Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/watl/
More information about collecting information about weather and making predictions.
Textbook page/s: 25
ABC news
http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/weather/
Find out about the weather in different parts of Australia.
Textbook page/s: 27
Volcano World
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
Find out more about volcanoes.
Textbook page/s: 35
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
View Earth from space.
Textbook page/s: 43
Virtual Solar System
http://www.solarsystem.org.uk
Add your own planet to the solar system!
Textbook page/s: 44
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html
Find out about recent space exploration and view a range of video clips and images of the solar system.
Textbook page/s: 45
NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/index.html
Find out about current space exploration.
Textbook page/s: 46
CSIRO
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/
Find out more about the Parkes radio telescope.
Textbook page/s: 46