Describe internal forces such as volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting, and plate movements that are responsible for the earth's major geological features such as mountains, valleys, etc SPI 0507.7.1

Links verified 9/25/2011

1. Animations Plate Tectonics animation (Warning!: These animated gifs, including the smallest files, load slowly)
2. Animations in the form of PowerPoint shows are available from the PLATES project at the University of Texas.
3. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics - a 41 slide PowerPoint show with excellent images and animations.
4. This Dynamic Earth - The story of Plate Tectonics from the USGS
5. Hell's Crust: Our Ever Changing Planet - from the PBS Savage Earth series, several good animations can be found at this site.
6. History - Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea
7. How the Plates Move - a lesson from Volcano World
8. Major Tectonic Plates of the World - The earth's surface is broken into seven large and many small moving plates clearly labeled on this map
9. Major Types of Plate Boundaries - good illustration from the USGS
10. Mechanisms - explanation of the driving forces behind plate tectonics
11. Mountain Belts - high quality transparency master
12. Movement of Seismic Waves - high quality transparency master
13. Moving Slabs - simple tectonic plate map from USGS
14. Observe the break up of Pangaea - This animation shows how the locations of continents and islands have changed over the past 150 million years.
15. Observe animations of processes that occur along plate boundaries (transform, convergent and diverging)
16. Paleomap Earth History maps
17. Paleomap VR animations
18. Pangaea to the Present - a study of the history of the Earth's tectonic plates.
19. Plate Tectonics - from a show hosted by WHYY
20. Plate Tectonics - the Cause of Earthquakes
21. Plate Tectonics map and a description of the three types of boundaries.
22. Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations - index of a large number of resources
23. Plate Tectonics Practice Exam - twenty-two multiple-choice questions developed by university students
24. Plate Tectonic Puzzle - lesson plan including puzzle pieces to cut out
25. Plate Tectonics Quiz - ten multiple-choice questions from Geography4Kids
26. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twelve multiple-choice questions, each on a separate page
27. Plate Tectonics Quiz - press Start then click on the named part of the drawing - his is hard! or
28. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twenty multiple-choice questions from Glencoe Science
29. Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - In this section you can calculate plate tectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
30. Recent Earthquakes: Last 8 to 30 days - from USGS
31. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in) or
32. Seismic Waves - This real-time 3D application allows users to create seismic waves of any magnitude and pass them through a variety of terrains. The student can view the seismic activity in the terrain through both a textured and wire frame view.
33. Subduction - the birth place of a volcanic mountain range [good animation]
34. Teaching about Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics - plan for a virtual journey to the earth's center
35. Tectonic Plates - high quality transparency master
36. Underground Igneous Rock Formations - high quality transparency master

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