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Suggested search terms Reference materials Books Electronic databases Search engines Presentation tips Citation resources Plagiarism policy				Web sites Countries Finding disasters and countries Natural disasters (general) Earthquakes Hurricanes Volcanoes
Suggested search terms In addition to searching for the name of your country, these terms may be helpful for performing keyword searches in the NHHS catalog, electronic databases, or online search engines:
Natural disasters Cyclones Earthquakes Floods Forest fires					Hurricanes Landslides Storms Tornadoes Volcanoes
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	Call #	Title
	REF 902W	New York Public Library Book of Chronologies See Chapter 12 - Accidents & Disasters for a timeline of disasters.
	REF 910.22L	Lands and Peoples [Vol. 6] Use the index to search for types of disasters and find the countries in which they occurred.
	REF 912D	World Reference Atlas See the chronology sidebar under each country’s entry for a list of disasters.
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Books These books about disasters are available on the reserved-books cart in the NHHS Media Center.
	Call #	Author				Title
	363.34 N	Newson, Lesley				Devastation! The world’s worst natural disasters
	363.64 N	De Blij, Harm J.				Nature on the rampage
	551 F	Holgate, Martin W. & Fuchs, Vivian				Forces of nature
	551 N	National Geographic				Powers of nature
	551.2 W	Walker, Bryce S.				Earthquake
	551.2 G	Gribbin, John R.				This shaking earth
	551.2 G	Gribbin, John R.				Earthquakes and volcanoes
	551.48 C	Clark, Champ				Flood
	904.5 H	Holden, Martin				Natural disasters
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Electronic databases Look for articles about your country and/or natural disasters in these electronic databases, accessible from the NHHS Media Center home page or on the media center computers’ Favorites list. ABC CLIO World History Country Watch EBSCO Host (or EBSCO Host Espanol) MasterFILE Premiere History Reference Center Newspaper Source TOPICSearch Facts on File History Database Center – World History Geography Grolier Online InfoTrac Student Edition NewsBank Global NewsBank Also see the special report on Natural Disasters SIRS Researcher World Book Online (includes Spanish encyclopedia) Return to table of contents
Web sites Countries Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html In-depth information about nations of the world complied by the Library of Congress. Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Descriptions and analyses of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Return to table of contents Finding disasters and countries Forces of Nature http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/ Educational information about natural phenomena and disasters. See the Case Studies and Ten Worst areas of the Reality section for lists of disasters and locations. Includes information in Spanish. ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND Information from 1981 to today about major natural disasters. From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Wild Weather http://www.wildweather.com/ Type a country name into the search field to see headline-making weather events. Worldwide Weather and Climate Events http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/weather-events.html See the International section for a list of natural disasters around the world. Return to table of contents Natural disasters (general) CBS News Disaster Links http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml A mega-site with hundreds of links about all kinds of disasters. Earthforce http://www.fi.edu/earth/earth.html The Franklin Institute presents information and links about the pushing and pulling in the Earth’s core, crust, or water that causes eruptions, quakes, or floods. Earth Observatory http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ Satellite imagery and scientific information from NASA about Earth’s climate and environmental change. Check out the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Lands sections for information on floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes and other disasters. Hazards http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazard.html The US Geological Survey’s site about unpreventable natural events, including earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and landslides. Hurricane and natural disaster brochures http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/general/lib/hurricbro.html Photos, descriptions, eyewitness accounts, and other information about many types of natural disasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Geographic: Forces of Nature http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/ Information about four of the most destructive natural forces: Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tornadoes. PlanetDiary http://www.phschool.com/science/planetdiary/ A weekly update about the state of planet Earth, focusing on natural phnomena and events, such as floods, fire, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and tropical storms. Weather Channel Storm Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/ Answers questions on severe and extreme weather. Includes information in Spanish. WeatherWatch http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/index.htm Facts from Scholastic about volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, winter storms, and tornadoes. Return to table of contents Earthquakes Earthquakes http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes/ Understand what earthquakes are, why they happen, and why we can’t predict them at this online exhibit from The Tech Museum of Innovation. Earthquake Facts and Follies http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/public/follies.shtml Answers to questions about earthquakes from the University of Memphis. Earthquakes for Kids http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/ Earthquake facts from the US Geological Survey. Seismosurfing the Internet for Earthquake Data http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html Directory of earthquake sites from the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network. Includes links to institutions outside the United States. Return to table of contents Hurricanes Hurricane, tropical cyclone history http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/whhistry.htm Resources from USA Today about hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, and tropic storms. Hurricanes http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml An online meteorology guide from the University of Illinois’ Weather World 2010 Project. National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ The history of hurricanes, statistics on the deadliest storms, and forecasts from the National Weather Service. Tropical Twisters http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/ NASA’s site about hurricanes, how they work, and what they do. Return to table of contents Volcanoes Volcanoes http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/framework.html Links to information about volcanoes around the world, compiled by the US Geological Survey. Volcanoes of the World http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/ Volcano and eruption data compiled by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Volcano FAQs http://geology.er.usgs.gov/eastern/volcanoes/volquest.html Scientists from the US Geological Survey answer questions about volcanoes. Return to table of contents
Search engines Search engines use different Web crawlers and formulas for ranking hits. To see the broadest variety of results, get in the habit of using at least two search engines for every research question.
	Search engines Retrieve Web sites found by an automated Web crawler		Metasearch engines Compile search results from several search engines				Subject directories List Web sites compiled by human beings rather than by an automated Web crawler
	Gigablast http://gigablast.com/ Google http://www.google.com/ HotBot http://www.hotbot.com/ MSN Search http://search.msn.com/ Teoma http://teoma.com/ WiseNut http://wisenut.com/		C4 http://www.c4.com/ Clusty http://clusty.com/ Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/ MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com/				About.com http://www.about.com/ Answers.com http://www.answers.com/ InfoMine http://www.metacrawler.com/ Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org/ LookSmart http://search.looksmart.com/ Open Directory http://dmoz.org/ RDN http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ Yahoo http://dir.yahoo.com/
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Presentation tips These sites offer advice on designing and delivering presentations. The art of communicating effectively http://www.projectorsolution.com/effectivepresentations.asp? Presenting effective presentations with visual aids http://www.osha.gov/doc/outreachtraining/htmlfiles/traintec.html Public speaking Web site http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_public_speaking_2 Return to table of contents
Citation resources Questions about citing your sources and preparing your bibliography? Check out these sites. Modern Language Association FAQs http://www.mla.org/style_faq Using MLA format (Purdue University Online Writing Lab) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html Landmarks Citation Machine http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php Citation Styles Online! http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html Return to table of contents
Plagiarism policy Plagiarism demonstrates lack of integrity and character. It is inconsistent with the goals and values of NHHS. Review the plagiarism policy to learn about strategies that will help you succeed with honor. NHHS policy on cheating and plagiarism http://www.nhvweb.net/NHHS/English/cheatingplagiarismpolicy.htm Return to table of contents

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