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Water Cycle Explorer
Heat the sea, grow a cloud and make it rain: the same water, round and round.
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Earth simulators
Water cycle, weather, moving plates, rivers and rocks.
Explore the living planet: make clouds and rain, mix temperature and humidity into weather, push tectonic plates until the ground shakes, watch a river carve its valley and send a rock round the rock cycle.
By class: Class 3, Class 4, Class 5, Class 6, Class 7, Class 8, Class 9, Class 10.
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Weather Maker
Mix temperature, humidity, pressure and wind to cook up today’s weather.
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Earthquake and Plate Tectonics Explorer
Push tectonic plates together, apart or past each other until the ground shakes.
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River Erosion: Watch Water Shape the Land
Change the flow and the sediment supply and watch a meander grow year by year.
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Rock Cycle: Change a Rock’s Story
Apply heat, pressure, weathering and melting to send a rock around the cycle.
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Groundwater Explorer: Will the Well Run Dry?
Set the monsoon, the paving and the pumping, run the months and watch the water table rise and fall past your well.
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Glacier Time Machine: Advance, Retreat and Sea Level
Set the snowfall and the warming, run the years and watch a valley glacier grow or shrink, then read how much sea level the lost ice adds.
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Ocean Current Explorer: Wind, Spin and the Great Loops
Turn the wind up, switch Earth’s spin on and off, and follow a drifting bottle round an ocean gyre while coastal thermometers change.
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Tide Lab: Two High Tides a Day, Spring and Neap
Turn the Earth under the Moon’s two bulges, move the Moon round its orbit and watch the tide at your town swing from spring to neap.
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Soil Detective: Sand, Silt, Clay and Water
Mix sand, silt and clay, pour water on your soil and see how fast it soaks in, how much stays, and whether a plant would thrive.
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Fossil Formation Lab: From Seabed to Stone
Bury a dead fish, shell or jellyfish under sediment, set the oxygen and scavengers, and see whether anything survives to become a fossil.
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Landslide Lab: When Does a Slope Give Way?
Set the slope, the rain, the trees and a road cut, then watch the safety gauge and see the hillside slide when holding force loses to gravity.
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Cave and Sinkhole Explorer: Water That Eats Rock
Send slightly acidic rain through limestone for thousands of years, watch a crack grow into a cave and see the roof fall in as a sinkhole.
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Monsoon Wind Machine: Why the Winds Reverse
Run the year on a coast, watch land and sea temperatures pull apart, and see the wind swing from land to sea and bring the rains.
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Tsunami Wave Lab: Fast in the Deep, Tall at the Shore
Set off an undersea earthquake, follow the wave across the ocean and see it slow down and rear up as the water shallows toward the town.
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