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SCIENCE WEB INDEX

Astronomy
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- Amateur Astronomy (good collection of basic astronomy links)
- Griffith Observatory Home Page (links to award-winning astronomy sites)
- Hubble Space Telescope (the official site)
- NASA Solar System Live (another good virtual viewer)
- Solar System Simulator (awesome--a must see!)
- StarDate Online (events in astronomy; updated weekly)
- Create a Star Map for any area (free plug-in required; can be downloaded on site)
- Sun/Moon data for any day, any location
- Topics in Astronomy (Hypertext online book from University of Oregon)
- Whitney's Star Finder
- Windows to the Universe (a multimedia interactive site)

Biology
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- Human Anatomy Sites
- Virtual Dissections
  - Cat
  - Cow's Eye
  - Frog
  - Human
  - Sheep Brain
  - World Species List (if it's alive, it's here...fully searchable database)
  - World Wide Web Virtual Library--Biosciences

Environmental Science
- California Environmental Protection Agency (includes several online fact sheets)
- Chemical Scorecard (search for polluters by city)
- EnviroLink (largest online environmental information resource on the planet)
- EnviroNet (focuses on Los Angeles area)
- Greenpeace Man and the Biosphere (at UC Davis)
- Population Ecology
- The WWW Virtual Library--The Environment
- World Wildlife Fund

Chemistry
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- BioChemLink (online sources for biology and chemistry)
- Biochemistry Online (SciCentral collection of best links)
- Chemistry Functions (an online calculator)
- Chemistry Tutor Page ChemTutor (a complete online tutorial)
- ChemWeb (list of Internet chemistry sites)
- Conversion of Units
- Organic Chemistry tutor
- Pictorial Periodic Table (very informative but also Lynx/Charlotte readable)
- WebElements (The entire periodic table online)

General Science
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- Sciences Explorer (interactive math, chemistry, physics, biology--Java and text versions)
- The Why-Files (the science background behind current news stories)

Geography and Maps
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- Maps
  - Atlapedia (world maps and basic information)
  - Historic Atlas Resource Library (requires Shockwave)
  - How Far Is It? (type in two cities and see the distance between them)
  - Mapquest Maps in the News (University of Minnesota)
  - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas)
  - Quick Maps of the World (small images, but large, useful collection)

Geology
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- American Geological Institute
- Geological Time Machine
- Geologic Time online edition (from USGS)
- Geologylink
- Mineral Gallery
- National Earthquake Information Center
- This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (USGS online publication)
- West's Geology Directory

Mathematics
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- Calculus
  - Calculus Outline
  - Calculus Tutor
  - e-Calculus (beginning tutorial; Adobe Reader required)
  - The Integrator (enter any integral and watch the page solve it for you)
  - On-Line Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource
  Geometry
  - The Geometry Center (formulas, proofs, graphics)
  - Virtual Reality Geometry Teacher
  Statistics
  - Basic principles of statistical analysis (online text) Fully animated
  - Introductory Statistics Demonstrations
  - Statistics on the Web
  - Wide World of Web Data (ready-made data for your projects)
  World Wide Web Virtual Library
  - Math
  - Statistics
- Weights and Measures
  - MegaConverter

Oceanography
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- AquaNet (covers aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, limnology, marine science, oceanography, maritime heritage, ocean engineering)
- National Oceanographic Data Center
- Ocean Planet Smithsonian (online exhibition)
- Oceanic Information Center
- Tide Predictor

Physics
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- The Particle Adventure
- Physics News
- Physics Students' Resources
- Physics 2000 (virtual tour of modern physics; uses Java)
- Stephen Hawking's Universe (the official Web site for the series)
- Virtual Physics (Online tutorial; Java required)

Weather
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- Southland Weather Forcast
  - Intellicast Los Angeles Weather
  - Yahoo Weather for California
  National Weather Forcast
  - National Weather Service (NOAA) http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
  - The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com
  - Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/
  - Yahoo Weather http://weather.yahoo.com/
- Meteorology
  - Climactic Data Center, National http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
  - Climactic Data Center, Western Regional http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
  - Ozone Mapping Data (EPA) http://www.epa.gov/airnow/ozone.html
  - WW2010 Meteorological Guides http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
    Formerly known as the Guide to Meteorology, we are expanding these resources beyond the scope of meteorology to other disciplines like climate, remote sensing and global change.

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Library & Learning Resources - Mt.San Antonio College
1100 North Grand Avenue, Walnut, CA 91789
(909) 594-5611 x4260
Meghan Chen, Dean, Library & Learning Resources

This page last updated August 5, 2008

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Paul Kittle