A. Geoview

This website has fantastic videos of animals in challenging locations, and information about how they manage to live there. There are also helpful tips on understanding geographical information, such as maps and diagrams of the Earth and its oceans. Users can also share information about useful links to follow.

B. Geographical

This website has lots of maps, quizzes and advice, to check your knowledge of what you’ve studied – and remind you of anything you’ve forgotten! There’s a brilliant section about popular places in many different countries, which attract large numbers of visitors, with background historical details about the reasons these places are now so well known.

C. Geography.com

This website has interesting maps and details about places that have become famous tourist destinations in different countries, and also some famous geographical features around the world, such as the biggest mountains and rivers. There are also online tips available on how to research information for projects.

D. Goworld

How do people live in places with very high or low temperatures in different seasons? Find out how people adapt to the climate they live in, how to affects their lives and what they do to stay warm or keep cool, as necessary. You can also upload your own stories about life in extreme temperatures in your country.

E. Planet Zoom

Not sure how to understand the information included on maps? Here’s a step-by-step guide to using them! The site also has games and puzzles about all the continents, including Africa, Asia and Europe, and important details about them, such as their huge size, and their mountain ranges, rivers and climate.

F. Worldwide

This website has lots of beautiful photos, maps and film clips to help you learn more about some of the highest – and coldest – peaks on the planet. You’ll find plenty of amazing facts about them, together with details of the wildlife that makes its home in the surrounding areas.

G. GeoInfo

Which countries in the world have the coldest winters, the highest mountains or the most unusual animals? Check your knowledge with some fantastic geography puzzles and games. And the photos on this site also show people’s everyday lives in very different climate conditions.

H. Geowatch

What’s underneath the ground we walk on? You’ll find maps and diagrams here to tell you – including what you’d see inside the planet if you cut it in half! There’s information, too, about parts of the world that aren’t land, but actually oceans and seas, and help on researching and presenting project information.

Mark Charles is a storm chaser and a weather photographer. During his career, he’s taken photos of all kinds of amazing weather, including tornadoes, thunderstorms and hurricanes. His photos have appeared in many scientific magazines.

Mark has also successfully appeared in documentaries on American TV to discuss severe weather, He’s an energetic and keen speaker. He’s written fascinating article about our changing weather and is the author of a very popular blog about extreme weather and several books. So how did Mark begin his career?

Mark grew up in Wisconsin in the USA, where ice storms, blizzards, floods and tornadoes are common. When he was six years old, he saw his first hurricane at close hand and he never forgot the experience. A few years later, his mother bought him a camera. Mark was more interested in recording the sound effects of weather than taking photographs. He used to spend hours recording sound outdoors. He did it as a hobby when he was a little boy, but he soon became very interested in extreme weather. He has journals with notes and some pictures that he collected. He discovered how some weather factors interacted and when you could expect to have a thunderstorm or ice storms. He was just an observer but that was enough to teach him quite a lot about the world around him. When he was a teenager, he used to read about all sorts of extreme weather events in the newspaper and he sometimes went to the library to look for scientific magazines on specific topics. He even joined an after school club that organized trips to observe weather patterns.

Mark studied journalism, not photography, at university and began his career as a writer working on local newspapers. He was good at his job and he never regretted that he’d become a journalist, but he kept his childhood interest in storms and when, in his late twenties, he saw an advert for a storm-chasing holiday in Tornado Alley, he joined the group and took his camera with him. Eventually, Mark’s photography took over from journalism and he became the artist he is today.

Magnets

Objects that have the power to pull iron and some other metals are called magnets. Magnets can do that because of their magnetic field; that is a region of force around them. So magnets work from a(n) 21 ________ ; they do not have to be touching other objects to pull them.

The objects that are attracted to the magnet, feel a force 22 ________ as ‘magnetism’, when they are inside the magnet’s magnetic field. This magnetic force can also easily pass through some other 23 ________, such as plastic. And even a not so strong magnet will 24 ________ to pull a pin to the other side of a sheet of paper.

Magnets come in different shapes and sizes, but the most common one is the one that 25 ________ like a horseshoe. But there are also other forms, such as bar magnets. Every magnet has two poles: a north pole and a south pole, at the opposite ends of it. Unsurprisingly the north pole of a magnet 26 ________ towards the Earth’s north pole and vice-versa.