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Science - Gr 7
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The following sites will be of help to you when researching your animal.
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Sites to find rainfall and temperature information: |
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| UKATTS guide to world weather and rainfall | ||
| Historical Weather Database (search for a country, or a specific city and then look for averages on temperature and rainfall for each month) | ||
| World Climate (great for the monthly temperature and rainfall, BUT you must know a city) | ||
| Animation of mean monthly temperatures (a world map which provides the monthly temperatures one at a time and then runs faster and faster to show the changes in animation) | ||
| Animation of average monthly precipitation (a world map which provides the precipitation one month at a time and then is animated as it runs faster and faster) | ||
| Where are the World's Rainforests? | ||
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from the Rainforest: GEOsystem This site has a great deal of information! It tells all about rainforests and has this map and more detailed ones to show the locations of the various rainforests of the world. |
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| Here are other good animal sites (general animal information): | ||
| Big Cats Online - provides excellent information on many species of cats | ||
| Wildlife on Easy Street - great information on many types of cats | ||
| 5 Tigers - good site for information on tigers | ||
| All about Tigers - only useful for Bengal tigers and the information is | ||
| Safari Joe's Zoological Park - the most useful part of this site is this section on cats | ||
| The Living Eden - Manu, Peru - has some helpful information on the animals of the Peruvian rainforest - plants and animals both | ||
| Rainforest Photo Index - has photos of a few rainforest animals | ||
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