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I created these pages so you have some useful information on the different subjects in science.

This information is not written by grade levels, so you may need to help your child comprehend the material involved.

You may be able to use some of this information in the written report of the Science Fair Project.

Living ThingsDiscusses how living things are alike, animals & plants, and in between animal & plant. Gives links to the main subcategories below.

PlantsProvides links to the subcategories below.

Energy & GrowthDiscusses plants & sources of energy, plant growth & water, how plants use energy, how plants continue on Earth, how climates change the way plants live, and plant cells & growth.

Flowers - Discusses the parts of a flower, seeds with one part, seeds with two parts, stems, and leaves. 

Other Plants - Discusses mosses & their relatives, the lower plants, plant puzzles, and plants with cones. 

Plant Behavior - Discusses plant behavior & nonliving things and plant behavior & living things. 

Animals - Discusses classifying by structure and how scientists classify. Gives links to the subcategories below.

Vertebrates - Discusses fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Invertebrates - Discusses protozoa, sponges, jellyfishes, corals, worms, earthworms, mollusks, starfish, arthropods, and the puzzle of the platypus.

Insects - Discusses how insects are alike, antennae, mouths, eyes, thorax, abdomen, how insects grow, growing in 4 stages, growing in 3 stages, how insects survive, how insects find each other, color that protects, insects that work together, insect pests, and problems for scientists.
Note: Insects are Invertebrates.

Energy & Matter - Provides links to the subcategories below.

Food Energy - Discusses carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins, and the food groups.

Work & Machines - Discusses simple machines, compound machines, lifting, force, gasoline engines, diesel engines, internal combustion, gas turbine engines, electric motors, generators, and computers.

Energy Sources - Discusses the sun's energy in relation to plants and animals, solar energy, wind, water, steam, and fuels.

Matter - Discusses the 3 states of matter, changing the states of matter, facts & theories of matter, the motion of molecules, molecular attraction, using molecular attraction, heat energy, measuring heat energy, transferring heat energy, and heat to mechanical energy.
Also included is an extensive section on Chemical & Nuclear Energy: combining atoms, energy for chemical change, energy from chemical change, oxidation, energy in substances, chemical energy in living things, photosynthesis, nuclear energy, elements, energy in the nucleus, fission, mass-energy, fusion, and mass-energy transfers.

Light - Discusses what light is, light from the sun, the colors of light, how light travels, and light in different substances.

Sound - Discusses vibration, frequency, tension, sound wave, how fast sound is, controlling noise, hearing sound, and measuring the volume of sound.

Electricity - Discusses electrical energy and electrons; static electricity; electricity in the sky; steady currents of electricity; generators; electricity from fuels, nuclear fuels, chemical energy, light energy; solar batteries; measuring electrical energy, electric currents; how a switch works; switches for special jobs; feedback control; good and poor conductors; danger in a short circuit; and electromagnets and permanent magnets.

Earth - Provides links to the main subcategories below.

Weather - Discusses what weather is and provides links to the subcategories below.

& Living Things - Discusses weather & crops, weather & gardens, where plants live, where animals live, hibernating, and migrating.

Make Up - Discusses air temperature, air pressure, wind, and water vapor.

Climate - Discusses what climate is and how climates are different. See also Seasons.

Storms - Discusses thunderstorms, tornadoes & water spouts, hurricanes, and other storms.

Seasons - Discusses why the seasons change.

Gravity - Discusses what gravity is.

Geology - Discusses constructional forces and destructional forces of the earth.

Resources - Provides links to the subcategories below, and has a link to Energy Resources (located under Energy & Matter).

Reusable - Discusses air & water.

Renewable - Discusses plants & animals.

Nonrenewable - Discusses soil. Also see Minerals.

Minerals - Discusses minerals for making things, common uses of some minerals, iron, aluminum, copper, mercury, other useful metals, new metals, coal, oil, natural gas, and rocks.
Note: Minerals are nonrenewable resources.

Sea Resources - Discusses minerals in the ocean, life in the ocean, plankton, seaweeds, fish, oysters, and whales.

Energy Resources - Discusses the sun's energy in relation to plants and animals, solar energy, wind, water, steam, and fuels. Note: This page is located under Energy & Matter.

Conservation - Discusses soil and water conservation.

Universe - Discusses what the universe contains and how the universe was formed. Gives links to the main subcategories below.

Solar System - Discusses the solar system & how it was formed, the sun, planets, moon, and tides. Gives links to the main subcategories below.

Sun - Discusses what the sun is like.

Planets - Discusses what the planets are like, and how planets move. Gives links to the subcategories below.

Mercury - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Venus - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Earth - Gives some characteristics of this planet.
For more information, See Earth directly under the Categories section.

Mars - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Jupiter - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Saturn - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Uranus - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Neptune - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Pluto - Gives some characteristics of this planet.

Moon - Discusses what the moon is like and why the moon seems to change its shape.

Tides - Discusses how the moon and sun cause tides.

Travel - Discusses navigating in space, where space begins, launching spacecraft, to the moon & back, what's different about being in space, and provides links to the subcategories below.

Pioneers - Discusses the beginning of the Space Age, space probes, and people in space.

Future - Discusses new explorations and space colonies.

Problems - Discusses space having no air, heat, & sound, space is dark, weightlessness in spacecraft, rays in space, meteors in space, spacecraft, and space stations.

Satellites - Discusses what a satellite is, how it is launched, its orbit, what keeps it in orbit, satellites getting information, collecting information about meteors, equipped to measure temperature, containing instruments to detect radiations, equipped to study the earth's magnetism, and carrying live animals.

Beyond - Discusses neighboring galaxies, more about galaxies, new findings, and changes in the universe.

Astronomy - Provides links to the subcategories below. 

Early - Discusses the beginnings of astronomy, the ups and downs in early astronomy, and astronomy's revolution.

Stonehenge - Discusses the mystery of Stonehenge and the path of the sun.

Mapping - Discusses how objects are located in space and using parallax to measure distances.

Viewing - Discusses telescopes in bringing stars closer, radio telescopes, satellites & space probes, and planetariums.

Other Aspects - Discusses the frontiersman of tomorrow and provides links to the subcategories below.

Workers - Discusses the plant-nursery worker, fish & wildlife specialist, computer programmers & computer operators, chemists, weather observers, astronomers, environmental careers, cartographers (mapmakers), working with resources, geophysics, volvanologists, seismologists, paleontologists, soil conservationist, city planner, forest rangers, people who control the weather inside a large building, meteorology & meteorologists, crops & climatologists, people who study air pollution, working on the water, knowing about water, finding water, wastewater-treatment plant operator, knowing about the ocean is important in many jobs, marine biologist, chemical oceanographer, solar engineers, people who make space travel possible, and science writing.

Careers - Provides questions to help you decide if you have an aptitude for science and lists some general careers in science.

Links - TrackStar - A site with a tremendous amount of information.
          
The Nine Planets and Their Moons - A very useful page to add to your information about the planets.