BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Animated guide: Tornadoes
The site as shown above will help the readers to develop the rudimentary understanding of the natural disaster which is called Tornadoes.
They will be able to understand the mechanism which comes into play in order to creat a Tornado. The reader will under the scale Fujita. The display demonstrates with graphics the devastation effect of F0 to F5 scale of a Tornado.
The readers can also learn about Earthquakes, Hurricane, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.
They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
What are Hurricanes?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Animated guide: Hurricanes
The site as shown above will help the readers to develop the rudimentary understanding of the natural disaster which is called Hurricane.
They will be able to understand the following terms.
Hurricane,
Typhoons
Cyclones.
Further, with the help of graphics, different dimensions of a hurricane can be understood.
The reader will also understand the scales used to measure the hurricane. It explains the Saffir-Simpson Scale. It also gives data of the category 1 to 5 of a hurricane.
The readers can also learn about Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.
They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.
Sources:
The site as shown above will help the readers to develop the rudimentary understanding of the natural disaster which is called Hurricane.
They will be able to understand the following terms.
Hurricane,
Typhoons
Cyclones.
Further, with the help of graphics, different dimensions of a hurricane can be understood.
The reader will also understand the scales used to measure the hurricane. It explains the Saffir-Simpson Scale. It also gives data of the category 1 to 5 of a hurricane.
The readers can also learn about Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.
They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.
Sources:
How do earthquakes take place?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How earthquakes happen
The above suggested link from the BBC site can help the readers about the rudimentary geography. Such questions appears in Prelims. They are objective type questions based on the core understanding of the fundamentals.
The readers can learn about the following terms:
Hypocentre
P waves,
S waves,
Epicentre
Surface Waves,
Rayleigh Waves
Love Waves
The readers can also learn about the man default centre or the world plates all over the world. They can also learn about the core structure of the Earth crust. All the terms are well illustrated.
The readers can learn about the following terms:
Hypocentre
P waves,
S waves,
Epicentre
Surface Waves,
Rayleigh Waves
Love Waves
The readers can also learn about the man default centre or the world plates all over the world. They can also learn about the core structure of the Earth crust. All the terms are well illustrated.
The readers can also learn about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis from the same site.
They can watch the lesson in flash play or as PDF files or HTML display as per the capabilities of the devices which they are using to access the internet. It is strongly recommended that they should prefer flash display which is more communicative.
Source: Earth crust graphics from BBC News
Terms further links from Wikipedia
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Eurotunnel/Channel Tunnel fire.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Channel Tunnel shut after blaze
The Eurotunnel, the only land contact between United Kingdom and European Continent, was closed on September 11, 2008.
However, on September 13, 2008, it was reopened.
The news could have caused scare to due to the date on which it had occurred.
Secondly, it again bring into light a man made marvel where two landmass are joined by 39 km longest undersea tunnel. It joins Calais in France with Folkstone in United Kingdom.
"The Channel Tunnel has suffered several incidents since it opened to traffic in 1994 although only one - a fire in 1996 - caused casualties.
In August 2006, 34 people had to be led to safety after a fire broke out on a lorry being carried on a freight train."
The Eurotunnel, the only land contact between United Kingdom and European Continent, was closed on September 11, 2008.
However, on September 13, 2008, it was reopened.
The news could have caused scare to due to the date on which it had occurred.
Secondly, it again bring into light a man made marvel where two landmass are joined by 39 km longest undersea tunnel. It joins Calais in France with Folkstone in United Kingdom.
"The Channel Tunnel has suffered several incidents since it opened to traffic in 1994 although only one - a fire in 1996 - caused casualties.
In August 2006, 34 people had to be led to safety after a fire broke out on a lorry being carried on a freight train."
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