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Elements of Nature Calendars


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Northern Lights
Northern Lights: The Science, Myth, & Wonder of Aurora Borealis


Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids


Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, CCraters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Night Comes
to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs


Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thrist
Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thrist


Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Vlcanoes, and Tsunamis
Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis


Petrified Forest
Petrified
Forest


Geysers: What They Are and How They Work
Geysers: What They Are and How
They Work


Glacers & Glaciation
Glaciers & Glaciation


Icebergs & Glaciers
Icebergs & Glaciers


Weather: Rainbows
Weather: Watch How Weather Works- Make Your Own Rain, Tornados, Lightening, and Rainbows


Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle
Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle




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Natural Phenomena Science Educational Posters & Charts
for the classroom and home schoolers.


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Natural phenomena posters and charts: auroras, comets, craters, eclipse, earthquake, floods and droughts, petrified forests, geysers, glaciers, icebergs, meteors, sand dunes, rainbows, volcanos, and waterfalls.



Meteor Crater, Winslow Arizona, Photographic Print
Meteor Crater
Winslow, Arizona,
Photographic Print

A natural object originating in outer space is called a meteoroid while in space, a meteor or shooting star when the impact pressure of entering the Earth's atmosphere causes it to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, and a meteorite when it survives an impact with the planet surface. Meteorites have also been found on the Moon and Mars.

Remarkable Meteor Shower over the Mississippi River, 1833, Poster
Remarkable Meteor Shower over the Mississippi River, 1833, Poster






When a number of meteors apperar to radiate from one point in the sky it is called a “meteor shower”. Most meteoroid are small fragments of cosmic debris smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all disintegrate and never hit the planet surface. Notable meteor showers are the Perseid in mid-August and the Leonid in November (33 year cycle - anticipated in 2032).

meteorite chart poster


Earthquake, Earth Processes Poster
Earthquakes,
Earth Processes
Poster

Earthquakes

When the plates of the Earth's crust move and collide with each other the forces create vibrations. These vibrations are commonly known as earthquakes. Earthquakes occur around the globe almost non-stop. Some are barely detectable and others create such destructive vibrations that whole cities can be shaken down to little more than rubble. Although volcanic eruptions and atomic explosions can cause earthquakes, most occur along plate boundaries where techonic forces build up.

• more Earth Processes posters


Wind, Water and Drought Erosion Carves Dramatic Peaks in the Badlands, Photographic Print
Wind, Water and Drought Erosion Carves Dramatic Peaks in the Badlands,
Photographic Print

A drought is a period of below average rainfall.

drought- Wild Weather poster


Kayakers paddling through flooded downtown historic Harpers Ferry Art Print
Kayakers paddling through flooded downtown historic Harpers Ferry
Art Print

Flood

A flood (from the Old English flod) is water that sits outside of the normal perimeters of a river, lake, or ocean.

Floods can be caused by heavy rains in tropical storms, heavy seasonal rainfall, and rapidly melting snow; coastal flooding can occur with high tides combined with storms that surge the ocean water inland.

Floods can cause loss of life from drowning, severe economic hardships from crops destroyed and water contaminated with diseases, and damage to the built environment.

Floods can also deposit nutrient rich soil along rivers such as the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, Indus, Ganges, and Yellow, that supported ancient civilizations with reliable food sources.

Thames Barrier, Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom, Photographic Print
Thames Barrier,
United Kingdom,
Photographic Print

Nations and communities use levees, reservoirs and sea walls as barriers to damage from floods such as dikes in The Netherlands, the River Thames Barrier, and the series of hydroelectricity producing dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that also control seasonal flooding.

The term “The Flood” usually refers to the great Universal Deluge described in Genesis in the story of Noah's Ark.

The Great Flood of 1993 occurred in midwestern US, along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their tributaries, from April to October, and in some categories, the even surpassed the 1927 flood, at the time the largest flood ever recorded on the Mississippi River.

The Missouri River watershed experienced another epic flood in 2011 as did the Red River of the North.

flood- Wild Weather poster
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Petrified Forest- Close view of petrified wood on the Crystal Forest Loop Trail Art Print
Petrified Forest- Close view of petrified wood on the Crystal Forest Loop Trail
Art Print

Petrified wood, fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation, is a three dimensional representation of the original organic material.

For wood to petrify it becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition. As mineral-laden water flows through the sediment it deposits minerals in the plant's cells. As stone forms it replaces the slowly decaying plant lignin and cellulose.

The colors of petrified wood are from the specific mineral deposited: carbon = black, cobalt, chromium and copper = green/blue, iron oxides = red, brown, and yellow, magneses = pink/orange, maganese oxides = blackish/yellow.

Petrified forests can be found world wide, perhaps best known in the U.S. is Arizona's Petrified Forest National Parks. Petrified wood is the provincial stone of Alberta and also the state gem of Washington.


Erosion & Weathering, Earth Processes Poster
Erosion & Weathering, Earth Processes Poster

Erosion & Weathering

Wind, rain and other forces are constantly shaping and rearranging the Earth's surface. This process of change is known as erosion and weathering. Erosion is the process of removal and transportation of Earth's materials by natural forces. These forces can include rain, wind, rivers, glaciers, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Weathering is similar to erosion except it does not include the transportation of materials. It is the process of rock breakup resulting from exposure to the atmosphere. Mechanical weathering involves the physical breakup of rock, without altering the chemical makeup of the minerals compounding it. An example of mechanical weathering is when ice expands to break apart rock. If the chemical makeup is altered, it is referred to as chemical weathering. Rust is a form of chemical weathering.

• more Earth Processes posters


Volcano, Geyser and Hotspring Art Print
Geyser
, Hotspring, and Volcano,
Art Print

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Landforms poster series

Geyser: A hot spring that erupts periodically, sending jets of water and/or steam into the air.

Hot Spring: Water warmed by geothermal energy that seeps to the Earth's surface to form a small pond. ...

Female Elk by Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Photographic Print
Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Nat'l Park,
Photographic Print







Glaciers, Earth Processes Poster
Glaciers,
Earth Processes
Poster


Glaciers

In the regions closest to the poles, or regions so high in elevation that snowfall accumulation exceeds the amount that melts off over long periods of time, glaciers can be formed. As the snow compacts into ice, the weight causes it to begin moving down a mountain, carving huge valleys and sculpting mountains. Motion and change are what glaciers are all about. Glaciers have been responsible for shaping most of the Earth's surface, either by direct carving from the ice flow or from the water runoff caused by glacial melting. As the glacier carves and breaks down rock, it can relocate massive amounts of rock over large areas. Glaciers typicaly move slowly, but great land transformations over a short geological time period (such as 100 years) have been recorded.

• more Earth Processes posters
Antarctica posters


Glacier and Iceberg Art Print
Landforms -
Glacier and Iceberg
Art Print

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Landforms poster series

Iceberg: A large floating chunk of ice, usually broken off from a glacier and carried out to sea on ocean currents, Typically, around 90% of the volume of an iceberg is under water, so the visible ice above the furface doesn't reveal much about the size and shape of the whole thing this has led to the expression “tip of the iceberg.”

Hidden Depths, Poster
Hidden Depths, Poster


Glacier: A large, slow-moving river of ice formed by multi-year snow accumulating on sloping terrain. Glaciers move very gradually downslope or outward, carving out valleys along the way. The runoff water creates rivers that further erode the landscape.

Fjord: A deep, steep-walled inlet of the sea formed by a glacier. May also be known as an inlet or sound.

color blue posters


Rainbow, Photographic Print
Rainbow,
Photographic Print

A rainbow, the optical and meteorological phenomenon of a spectrum of light that appears in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere, take the form of a multicolored arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch.


Sossusvlei Sand Photographic Print / Nambia
Sossusvlei Sand Photographic Print / Nambia



Sand Dunes

A hill of sand built by aeolian processes (winds eroding, transporting, and depositing materials).

A “dune field” is an area covered by extensive sand dunes, very large dune fields are called ergs.

The valley between dunes is called a slack, the windward side of the dune is longer than the “slip face” or leeward side of the dune.

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Deserts of the World posters


Volcanoes, Earth Processes Poster
Volcanoes, Earth Processes Poster

Volcanoes

Deep inside the Earth, heat and pressure cause solid rock to melt into a liquid known as magma. In some areas around the globe this magma has risen to the surface and erupted, creating volcanoes. Volcanoes are generaly classified into three types: Shield Volcanoes, Composite Cone Volcanoes and Cinder Cones.

Shield volcanoes are broad, domed mountains formed from highly liquid magma flowing and cooling slowly to form rock. As one eruption cools another eruption flows over it, building layers of cooled lava flows. These volcanoes erupt primarily liquid magma, or lava, as it is called once it reaches the Earth's surface.

Composite cone volcanoes are more explosive in nature. The lava fragments are cooled in the air, forming pyroclastic material. The next eruption might be more liquid, thus it has alternating layers of pyroclastic material and lava flows. This type of volcano has much steeper sides.

Cinder cones are primarily built up with pyroclastic material around a central vent. This is common in larger volcanoes.

• more Earth Processes posters
• more mountain posters
geology posters


Waterfalls, Yosemite National Park, Photographic Print
Waterfalls, Yosemite National Park,
Photographic Print

Waterfalls are places where flowing water abruptly drops in elevation as it flows over a steep area or a cliff.

Notable waterfalls are Angel Falls in Venzuela, Victoria Falls in Africa and Niagara Falls between the US and Canada.

• more national parks posters


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