Water Quality
Water Quality Website Requirements
Water Quality Database

Pollution Webquest

Storyboard Rubric || Storyboard Scoring Sheet
Website Rubric || Website Scoring Sheet

General Water Quality Info EVERYONE READ THIS ONE What is Specific Gravity? Sediments, Temp, etc. Water Quality Info Center Another Water Quality Info ExploreA-Pond Jefferson County Water Resources Council Homepage Wild Olympic Salmon Rivers and Streams Rivers, Streams, and Creeks What is a Stream? Panoramic Views of Streams and Creeks Avoid Channelization of Streams and Creeks Environmental Info Conductivity and Water Quality Conductivity Info Why is Conductivity Important? MicroSiemens to Salt Conductivity and Salinity Salinity (READ THIS) Water Conductivity in Stream Environments Water Quality Monitoring: Conductivity to Salinity Turbidity 1 Turbidity 2 Turbidity 3 Chimacum Creek Results from 1994!!   Monitoring of Biological Integrity (BUG Group!) Sarah's 2002 Benthic Macroinvertebrate PowerPoint Presentation North Olympic Salmon Coalition SalmonWeb Macroinvertebrate Key Benthic Macroinvertebrates (Permission to use bug picts received on 3-3-04.) Indicator Species Catalog of Aquatic Macros (Permission to use bug picts received on 1-25-08.) Stream Bugs and Food Salmon Species Salmon Species (better picts) Salmon Identification SalmonInfo.org Salmon Life Cycle Flow Rate Stream Flow Stream Flow Question Effect of Stream Flow on Salmon (Read Stream Flow paragraph after you learn what PDO means.) Effect of Water Flow on Salmon Fry Salmon Habitat Flow Rate Experiment The Watershed Story (a GOOD one!) Try this Water Flow Applet What Relative Humidity Means Relative Humidity Relative Humidity - Wikipedia   Extras Arsenic in Groundwater Arsenic: EPA Toxicity, Cyanide Consumer Factsheet on Cyanide Cryptosporidium PT Leader Article: Dosewallips Park Grapples with Growth PT Leader Article: Anderson Lake off limits after water kills two dogs   Back to top

Water Quality Tests Dissolved Oxygen in Water What is Dissolved Oxygen? Parts Per Million Measuring Dissolved Oxygen Dissolved O2 D. O. mg/L D. O. Criteria (Permission to use DO Criteria pict received on 3-5-04.) Temperature Stream Temperature Stream Temperature Ch 3 Water Temperature Water Quality and Temperature Nitrates & Nitrites Nitrates Nitrogen, Ammonia, Nitrite, and Nitrate Nitrates in Drinking Water Phosphates Total Phosphorus Nitrates & Phosphates Phosphates Total Phosphate Phosphates and Pollution Streams Reduce Nitrogen   pH pH Values of Water Why is pH Important Water Properties: pH pH: Water Quality What does pH stand for? potential of Hydrogen Fecal Coliform Bacteria Fecal Coliform Bacter (Another site) What does it mean? Total and Fecal Fecal Coliform in Streams Fecal Coliform Bacteria and Water Testing Total and Fecal Coliform Bacteria (To use the bacteria pict, click here for proper citation.) Bacteria Growing on EMB Levine Agar Enterobacter Aerogenes Bacteria Enterobater Acinetobacter baumannii Acinetobacter Dangerous E-coli Strain Carbon Dioxide Test Parts Per Million Carbon Dioxide The Carbon Cycle Hard Water Hard Water Explanation Household Water Quality - Hardness (Permission to use the following picture, click here for pict, recieved on 3-1-04.) Water Hardness Parts Per Million Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) TDS & Water Quality Silica Links Crystalline Silica Test Method for Silica in Water Silica Water Interactions Silica in Water Article Air Pressure! Air Pressure Atmospheric Pressure Air Pressure and Humidity Hood Canal Info and Maps! Back to top

Soil Sites

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Owl Pellet Lab

Owl Pellet Lesson Owl Pellet Rubric (goes with above lesson) Owls of North America Owl Pellet Resources Dissecting Owl Pellets

Dissecting Owl Pellets Owl Pellets Word Download (for Mac) Owl Pellets Word Download (for Win) Handouts (scroll down to Ecology/Environmental) Owl Pellet Lesson

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Featured Scientists

Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996) Brilliant rogue Astronomer Tribute to Carl Sagan Scientific American: Carl Sagan

Alfred Wegener (1880 - 1930) Came up with Continental Drift Theory Wegener and Pangaea Alfred Wegener

Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 - 1994) Brilliant Chemist, did amazing stuff! Bio Page Nobel Museum Bio

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Famous for her work on Radioactivity. Cool History Site Nobel Museum Bio

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Miscellaneous Earth Science Sites

ZoomDinosaurs.Com Dinosaur Extinction Theory Welcome to Thinking Fountain! Strata - Science Museum of Minnesota

Paleozoic Era: Life The Paleozoic Era Maps of Ancient Earth Fossils

Earth History Global Earth History Geologic Ages of Earth 650 Million Years Ago

Earth Views || Destination: Earth || Discovery Science
For Kids Only - Earth Science Enterprise || Nasa Education Programs
Nasa's Earth Observatory || Spacelink: Earth
Project Starshine

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Ecology Intro	Global Warming EPA Site Global Warming
Pollution Ocean Pollution Air Pollution	Recycling Recycling Factoids Consumer Recycling
Deforestation Deforestation Atmosphere	Wetlands/Watersheds Wetlands Watershed
Wildlife & Ecosystems Wildlife Rehabilitation Endangered Species	Energy Conservation Energy Conservation Saving Energy

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Lab Safety Links:

Lab Safety Site (comprehensive) || Flinn Scienctific Safety (comprehensive)
Lab Safety (limited)

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Health
Alphabetic List of Specific Diseases/Disorders

6th grade Chimacum Middle School science curriculum

Science Essential Academic Learning Requirements

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EMM Links

The EMM Student Website

Carolina's STC/MS Website (EMM)

 
Serial and Parallel Battery Configurations

Series and Parallel Batteries Connections

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