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Wide Open Spaces: Climate Change Impacts in Rural Areas of the United States

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The scientists in this study were interested in studying how climate change may impact rural areas in the United States. Rural areas are expected to experience more negative impacts from the change in agriculture due to climate change than urban areas experience. However, rural areas may not experience as many extreme heat events as urban areas. 

Welcome to the Southern United States Climate Change Edition of Natural IQ

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Education Standards Correlations

• National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Climate Kids

  For more information visit http://climatekids.nasa.gov/

• PBS Harriman Expedition Retraced: Alaska Native Communities

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/native.html

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heat Island Effect

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Kids Site

  For more information visit http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/climatechange/

• Janaki Alavalapati
• Pankaj Lal
• Evan Mercer

• Earth Science
• Life Science
• People and Science
• Technology and Science

• The Scientific Process

• Climate
• Climate Change
• Habitat

• Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry (A)
• Diversity and adaptations of organisms (C)
• Natural hazards (F)
• Nature of science (G)
• Regulation and behavior (C)
• Science and technology in society (F)
• Science as a human endeavor (G)
• Structure and function in living systems (C)
• Understandings about science and technology (E)
• Understandings about scientific inquiry (A)