Plate tectonics and Earth's structure
What is the evidence supporting plate tectonics?
How does plate tectonics account for important features of Earth's surface and major geologic events?
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The Lawrence Hall of Science in the hills above UC Berkeley offers fantastic hands-on workshops and exhibits related to earthquakes and plate tectonics. The middle school program, “EarthquakesWhose Fault Is ...
Marin Headlands photograph of Marin Headlands from the Golden Gate Bridge by Christopher Beland
The Marin Headlands contain the geologic record of a great deal of plate tectonic action that can ...
Earthquake TowerIn this project, students construct drinking straw towers that must withstand the shaking of a shake table. One by one, 250 gram sandbags are loaded onto the towers. The ...
Students take what they know about earthquake, volcano and mid-ocean ridge distributions (The Big One and Plate Patterns) and put it together with what they know about convection in the ...
What drives the motion of the Earth’s tectonic plates? Partly, it is convection, the process by which heat energy is transferred by currents in a liquid or gas. Convection currents ...
In the style of Jules Verne’s book Journey to the Center of the Earth, take your students on a walk, using sidewalk chalk to mark the boundaries between the different ...
Kilauea Crater, Hawaii Pu'u 'O'o crater at dusk. Image courtesy of USGS.Starting with an earthquake epicenter map (generated by students in The Big One activity), students add information about where ...
San Francisco, 1906 Aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that caused an estimated 3,000 deaths and $524 million in damage.Students use the USGS World Earthquake Archive to research the major ...
Seismogram Image created by Crickett.Using the excellent Virtual Courseware - Earthquake program, students learn how to read a seismogram and use them to triangulate the epicenter of an earthquake. This ...
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