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Still image from: All the Answers: Gravity, Black Holes, Rainbows

Still image from: All the Answers: Hurricanes, Owls, the Moon

Still image from: All the Answers: Jellyfish, Roller Coasters, Clouds

Still image from: All the Answers: The Everglades, Canals, Heat Waves

Still image from: All the Answers: Tornadoes, Wind Energy, Batteries

Still image from: All the Answers: Voting, Wolves, Thunderstorms

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy

Still image from: Bite-Size Science With André and Lexi: Wind Energy--How to Build an Anemometer

Still image from: Careers Meteorologist for Kids

Polar bear on all fours walking in the dark. Caption: It was the cold in fact that created polar bears.

Title text reads, "Climates," against a blue background.

Field with green foliage in the foreground and fields with round bales of hay in the background. Caption: The climate still impacts agriculture.

Glowing ball representing the sun with a globe representing the earth traveling in orbit around it. Examples of the different hemispheres experiencing opposite seasons in the background. Caption: A season is a division of the year

Person in shadow against a backdrop of open expanse of ocean and sky. Caption: The new adversity they're having to deal with is climate change.

Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms

Map of the world with color highlighting areas of different climates. Caption: Next, Koppen's system defined what are called "macroclimates."

Large puffy clouds across an open expanse of sky. Caption: (narrator) And from clouds, we get precipitation,

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Earth Science: Current Events

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Earth Science: Severe Weather

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Earth Science: Weather Channels

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Earth Science: Weather vs Climate

Still image from: Crash Course Kids Life Science: Climate Change

Edge of a manhole cover with "No Dumping Drains to Bay" printed on the ground. Caption: That goes into storm drains and ends up in the Santa Ana River.

Curving river with unnaturally even banks winds through green fields. Caption: which is like a highway for water.

Three cartoon characters talking to a bird. Caption: Operation Save The Emperor is a go!

Still image from: Cyberchase: Weather or Not (Part 2)

Aerial view of a shoreline with a person body surfing and more people on the beach. Caption: rip currents account for 80% of beach rescues

Ominous gray clouds in the sky. Caption: This creates moisture in the air.

Four pictures of beaches, roads and bridges being washed away by stormy water. Caption: It can severely erode beaches and coastal highways.

Close up of a wave crashing on shore. Caption: Rip currents can form even in small waves,

Aerial view of apparently calm waves meeting the shore while a few people walk on the beach. Caption: make sure you know how to spot a rip current

Platform with large machinery and people on it floating in the water close to shore. Caption: NOAA's sentinels are water-level observing platforms

A large spiral shaped storm on Earth's surface as seen from space. Caption: Tropical cyclones extract heat from the ocean

Map of Earth with Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia in view. The water on the map shows large portions highlighted in orange. Caption: Tsunamis can strike any coastline in the world

Palm tree and house out of focus in foreground, wall of water from the ocean in focus in the background. Caption: to forecast when tsunamis may hit the coast

Aerial view of a coastline showing regular waves and an approaching tsunami. Map of Japan and Japanese writing overlaid. Caption: The result was devastation and utter destruction.

Aerial view of the ocean. Caption: This disturbance causes a transfer of energy

Needle on paper resulting in jagged peaks and troughs with a sinuous wave overlaid. Caption: It detects tremors, calculates the epicenter,

Grayish-green cloudy sky with a funnel cloud reaching to the ground. Caption: (male narrator) They are sometimes seen as threatening funnel clouds,

In foreground a flat, barren landscape with a large cloud of dust. In the background there are some out-of-focus hills. Caption: The sand forms gigantic dust carpets,

Close-up of planet Earth with swirling clouds and areas without clouds.

Cartoon character talking to a small flying insect. Caption: (Johan) Some animals' habitats are rivers, lakes, and ponds.

Huge cloud of dust in the distance engulfing thousands of houses in a city. Text on image reads, "Dust storm."

Trees, water, mountains, desert, and plain with river. Caption: Biomes are like little kingdoms.

Two people sit on a couch. One is putting on a gas mask. Caption: Gas masks are made to fit small, medium, and large faces.

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Earthquakes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Flooding."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Hurricanes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Thunderstorms."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Tornadoes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Tsunami."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Volcanoes."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Wildfires."

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. World's Hottest Places."

Still image from: Floods for Kids

A glacier between two mountains covered in snow. Caption: (narrator) The last great Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago.

A mountain covered in snow. Caption: (male narrator) They exist on every continent on earth except Australia.

Still image from: Go Jetters: Go Jet Academy--Hurricane Rescue

Coastline with multistory buildings and a stormy ocean. Caption: But the weather can be menacing too.

Buildings and a vehicle barely visible through a storm. Caption: A hurricane flexes its muscles with more than wind.

Eye of a hurricane swirls on a dark background with glowing blue data visualizations. Text underscored with orange and red reads, "Hurricane Alert."

A cartoon shows an example of a T V weather report, extra sunny or cloudy rainy.

An illustration depicts different layers of an ice core. The layers may contain volcanic remains, dust, and pollen, from a corresponding period.

Illustration of a sunny day and a thermometer showing a temperature in the mid 30's. Spanish captions.

Still image from: JoJo & Gran Gran: It's Time to See a Rainbow

Still image from: Lab Six: Bad Weather (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Inclement Weather (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Weather (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Wind (Spanish)

Still image from: Lab Six: Wind II (Spanish)

Still image from: Let's Learn: Let's Share a Story--Hello, Rain!

Central point of light surrounded by nebulous cloud-like structures and glowing light. Caption: The intense light of a supernova travels outward,

Dry, brown grasses dotted with wildflowers wave in the wind. Caption: Hot, arid summers tend to parch vegetation.

Evergreen plants in shades of green from light to dark cover the landscape. Caption: Shrubby, evergreen plants are widespread in all five areas.

Somewhat rocky soil with cactus and scrub-like plants give way to cultivated rows of plants and buildings in the distance. Caption: These areas as known as Mediterranean climate reasons.

Puffy white clouds. Cumulus clouds. Caption: Cumulus, Latin for "heap,"

Snow-capped mountains with thin clouds above. Caption: In the sky, winds move and shape the clouds

Low elevation mountains with pockets of snow. Caption: The northern polar region includes Greenland,

Map of the Eurasian continent and pacific islands, as well as the Indian and Pacific oceans. Caption: (narrator) A monsoon is the name for a meeting of winds

Illustration of cold air near the ground and warm air at higher elevation. Caption: Winds are born between these air zones.

Illustration of mountains and the night sky with a crescent moon reflected on water. Caption: No plant or animal can survive for long in these salt deserts.

Illustration of clouds in the sky. Caption: (narrator) Thunderstorms occur when it's hot and humid near the ground,

Illustration of a cloud with ice particles floating above a frozen landscape. Caption: tiny pieces of ice, called ice nuclei,

Illustration of a barren landscape with rain falling. Caption (narrator) In tropical climates, there are only two seasons:

Illustration of a dry, brown landscape and an orange sun. Caption: These areas are very dry and semi-arid,

Illustration of a ring of islands surrounded by a thin line of sand and shallow water. Caption: They can only be found in warm seas.

Illustration of a large amount of snow sliding down a hillside. Caption: It's not a very rapid avalanche, but it's very solid.

Illustration of a few trees as seen through extremely thick snow. Caption: During a blizzard, winds can exceed 40 kilometers per hour.

Illustration of heavy rain and a dark sky with a large funnel shaped cloud over water. Caption: (narrator) Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons are harsh

Still image from: Nick News: Aliens, Space Camp, Hottest Summer

Aerial view of a large airplane in flight. Sensors dot the outside of the plane. Caption: (male narrator) Hurricane hunting is not for the faint at heart.

Lightning branching across the sky. Caption: (female narrator) Lightning is a rapid discharge of electrical energy

Person at a bank of computer screen showing maps shaded in various colors. Caption: the development of El Niño and La Niña.

Snow covered trees with bare branches. Caption: Rising air pressure often means the weather is clearing,

Still image from: Ocean Waves for Kids

Earth spinning on its orbit, the equator of earth is tilted downward and eastward.

A photo depicts the earth spinning in its orbit, where the equator and tropic of cancer are highlighted. Caption: June

Earth spinning on its orbit, the tilt of earth's central axis along the vertical axis is highlighted.

A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.

A large circular storm on Earth's surface, as seen from space. Caption: the forecasters categorize them by wind speed.

Flooded suburban street with water reaching up nearly to the top of the garage doors.

Still image from: Ranger Hamza's Eco Quest: Wind

A person washing a window with a sponge. Caption: What's the weather outside your window today?

Iceland as seen from above. Mostly green with a few central patches of ice and snow. Caption: Iceland is an oceanic island

Illustration of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere. In order from closest to farthest: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere. Caption: and the top layer is called the exosphere.

Still image from: Sarah & Duck: Wool on Wheels

Satellite flying above the ocean with a spiral shaped storm on the water. NOAA Environmental Satellites Predict & Track Storms. Caption: and predict and track tropical storms and hurricanes.

Bolt of lightning arcing from cloud to ground. Caption: we all want up-to-the-minute information.

Lava spewing from a crevasse while smoke and ash rises around it. Caption: how long the ash will linger and when the skies will be clear

Computer screens with color-shaded images of a spiral shaped storm. Caption: study hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards from the inside.

Storm so strong it limits visibility while palm trees bend in the wind. Caption: Dropsondes have a huge impact on understanding hurricanes

City with closely placed buildings almost entirely destroyed, very few still standing. Caption: new design standards and building codes.

Computer screen showing east coast of United States with color gradient showing a band of storms parallel to the coastline. Caption: almost 200 tornadoes had occurred

Person drawing a straight line down the side of a metal cylinder. Caption: Cores like this are nature's archives.

Platform in a warehouse holding a building suspended by struts. Caption: This shake table is the largest in the world,

Closeup cross-section of a large tree with many rings. Caption: This is a cross-section of a redwood tree.

Circular turbines stacked two-high. People walk in front of them. Caption: designed this 15-foot-tall wall of wind, nicknamed, "WOW."

Graphic of streets outlined in various colors with letters and numbers assigned to the individual streets. Caption: to construct a street-by-street view of Sandy's devastation.

Man releasing water into the air from a pump. Caption: equivalent to a major storm,

A large warehouse with a sloping roof. Caption: (narrator) At the Center for Aerosol Impacts

A water body. Caption: More people and more buildings mean more strain on the system.

Satellite image of a hurricane. Caption: how storms impact cities and towns along our coasts.

Model building being pounded by waves. Caption: And when engineers pounded it with a mini-tsunami,

Person watching a newscast on a laptop. Caption: most people rely on TV to make decisions as storms approach.

A giant funnel cloud moving toward a house. Caption: You really have to just step back and have great respect

A rapidly moving river with trees on the bank. Caption: (male narrator) Water, a precious resource for sure.

Color gradients showing the amount of water vapors over a map of the earth. Caption: showing the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Green treetops looking over a lake with puffy clouds in a blue sky. Caption: First, moisture is needed to form clouds and precipitation.

Snowy field and mountain range. Caption: Polar climates are very, very cold, windy, and snowy.

View of Earth in space. Spanish captions.

Green patchwork fields with a mountain rising in the background. Clouds cover most of the blue sky. Caption: Clouds can form at any height above the ground.

Aerial view of snow-and-ice-covered rock surrounded by icy water. Caption: Glaciers and icecaps are frozen year round,

A patch of dried, cracked, mud. Caption: There are three types of drought…

Closeup of light brown mud drying out so that cracks are forming along the edges. Spanish captions.

Muddy water rushing through a rocky channel. Caption: Floods are the most common and expensive natural disasters.

Aerial view of a city with muddy water filling the streets. Spanish captions.

Rough ocean water covering beach and surrounding areas. Caption: Hurricanes are huge storms that are given names

A hurricane's waves flooding a road. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a fern leaf with water dripping from it. Caption: Precipitation is a major part of the water cycle

People walking through a city while it's snowing. Spanish captions.

Tornado swirling in the middle of a field. Caption: The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous damage,

Funnel cloud descending from a cloud-covered sky. Spanish captions.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Be a Weather Watcher

Still image from: SciShow Kids: How to Make a Paper Snowflake

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Tsunamis--The Biggest Waves

Still image from: SciShow Kids: What Causes Thunder and Lightning?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: What's a Hurricane?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Where Does Fog Come From?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do Floods Happen?

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Why Do We Put Salt on Our Sidewalks?

Still image from: SciShow: What Is Wind?

An illustration of hurricane recipe. On screen text, precursor storms + warm water + low wind shear. Iconic representations for all the three are depicted. Caption: Let's start with precursor storms.

Small cloud representing an average snowstorm compared to a larger angry cloud representing a thundersnow storm. Caption: separating ordinary snowstorms from thunder snowstorms,

Split screen of a deer standing in a snow flurry on left and a fox sitting in the snow on right. Text at bottom reads, "Winter coats."

Cartoon of a garbage truck pulling up to a dumpster. Caption: The garbage truck?

Snow covered plain with occasional evergreen trees and a mountain rising up in the background. Caption: At higher elevations, there is less oxygen in the air

Cartoon drawing of a flying superhero with a "W" on his chest. Caption: (Tim) "The adventures of Weatherman."

Sunlight filtering through the leaves of a tree. Caption: can absorb or scatter radiant energy from the sun.

Image of a thunderstorm hovering over a state. Occluded front. Caption: We could end up with hail again.

Sky filled with gray fluffy clouds. Caption: Clouds can block some of the sun's rays

Image of cloud with rain and snow over a state. Caption: if the temperature is right, snowstorm.

Drawing of girl standing by the ocean. Caption: can expect a 1- to 4-foot rise in their lifetime,

Farmers working in a field. Caption: In humid regions, these are intensively cultivated.

Still image from: The Water Cycle for Kids

Illustration of a bunny raising fist in the air. Caption: Yeah…we did it!

Tornado approaching several buildings. Caption: live in fear of a tornado touchdown.

Still image from: Types of Clouds for Kids

Black and white photo of the aerial view of the hurricane. Caption: But it's not the increased wind speed.

A photograph of cirrus clouds. On screen text, cirrus. Caption: Cirrus clouds are thin, white clouds.

Partially cloudy sky with the sun shining through clouds. Caption: The sun heats up different parts of the Earth,

Blue sky with beaming suns peeking out from behind clouds, while rain falls from some and lightning strikes from others. Text reads, "Weather for Kids."

Partially cloudy sky with the sun shining through clouds. Caption: that weather moves in patterns across the sky,

Two cars are partially submerged in flood water.

Partially collapsed building covering a vehicle in debris. A person wearing a hard hat films the destruction. Caption: But tornadoes can cause massive destruction.

Vehicles driving on a road with a funnel-shaped cloud descending from the sky. Caption: Tornadoes are smaller, very powerful storms

Overhead dark blue storm clouds with lightning on the left while sun peaks through casting a reddish glow on the right.

Still image from: What Is a Rainbow?

Still image from: What Is Lightning? for Kids

Deep cracks in dried out mud. Spanish captions.

Spots of greenery in between a wide, muddy channel. Spanish captions.

Person in a kayak next to glaciers reaching up towards the sheet of ice. Caption: (male) The Vatnajökull glacier covers about 10% of all of Iceland.

SUV stopped in the path of a funnel cloud. Caption: By positioning himself in the path of monster storms,

Aerial view of low clouds clinging to a mountain range on the left in the glow of a red setting sun. White text in the middle of the screen reads, "Islands of the Monsoon."

Satellite looking down the surface of the Earth over a large storm system. Caption: a new storm gathers strength, churning towards land.

In a snowy mountain scene, a tall white building is lit up in the night.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Earth Weather

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Extreme Weather

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Fire and Ice

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Natural Disasters

Beneath a dark brown cloud, a tornado rages through farmland. In the distance are low, stormy clouds pouring rain.

Still image from: Xploration DIY Sci: Weather Experiments

Tornado touches down out of a dark stormy sky.