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| SCIENCEPOWER 10 Student Resources Chapter 14: Air, Water, and Solar Energy The links on this page will take you to locations outside of the McGraw-Hill Ryerson site family. These links will be in a new browser window; to return to this page, please close the outside link. El Niņo's Effects on Canada How does an El Niņo affect the salmon fishery in British Columbia? Where in Canada is the temperature most affected by El Niņo? Find the answers to these questions here - they may surprise you! El Niņo Report This CNN site has a vast amount of information on numerous aspects of El Niņo. Although it concentrates on the United States, the effects on Canada and South America are also discussed. Other Great Web Sites for Chapter 14 Get Weather Phenomena Statistics for Your City This is a great reference. Enter the name of any city in the world to learn its latitude, average precipitation, average temperatures, and related facts. Useful for the Science Inquiry Activity "The Gulf Stream and Climate." The Reasons for Seasons: Spreading Sunlight over the Spherical Earth This student activity site (which is also for teachers) helps you discover why there are basic climate regions on Earth, and what causes the seasons. The activity involves constructing a simple three-dimensional model of Earth, and exploring the effect of Earth's tilt. Hours of Daylight Online Data This site calculates sunrise and sunset times for every major city in the United States. To check cities in Canada and elsewhere, use Form B and enter the longitude and latitude of the location. You can either save the data as a text file or print it. |