Analyze the relationship between plate movements and areas of earthquake activity 0707.7.5

Links verified on 6/19/2014

1. Animation of Earthquake Waves - Click the images to see the animations. Play both movies at the same time to examine the relative speeds of the waves. or
2. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics - a 41 slide PowerPoint show with excellent images and animations.
3. Do Faults Break All at Once, or in Many Short Segments? - animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)
4. Do Subducting Plates Slide Smoothly Past One Another? - elastic rebound in a subduction zone (animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)
5. This Dynamic Earth - The story of Plate Tectonics from the USGS
6. Hell's Crust: Our Ever Changing Planet - from the PBS Savage Earth series, several good animations can be found at this site.
7. How do Earth’s tectonic plates interact? - divergent and convergent plate boundaries (animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)
8. How Is Stress Stored Between Tectonic Plates? - elastic rebound on a strike-slip fault (animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)
9. 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
10. Major Types of Plate Boundaries - good illustration from the USGS
11. Movement of Seismic Waves - high quality transparency master
12. Moving Slabs - simple tectonic plate map from USGS
13. Plate Tectonics - from a show hosted by WHYY [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
14. Plate Tectonics - the Cause of Earthquakes
15. Plate Tectonics map and a description of the three types of boundaries.
16. Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations - index of a large number of resources
17. Plate Tectonics Practice Exam - twenty-two multiple-choice questions developed by university students [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
18. Plate Tectonic Puzzle - lesson plan including puzzle pieces to cut out [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
19. Plate Tectonics Quiz - ten multiple-choice questions from Geography4Kids
20. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twelve multiple-choice questions, each on a separate page
21. Plate Tectonics Quiz - press Start then click on the named part of the drawing - his is hard! or
22. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twenty multiple-choice questions from Glencoe Science
23. Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - In this section you can calculate plate tectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
24. Recent Earthquakes: Last 8 to 30 days - from USGS
25. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in) or
26. Seismic Wave Demonstrations and Animations - index of resources posted at Purdue University
27. Seismic Waves - seismic wave simulator .
28. Seismic Waves - make your own earthquake or
29. Subduction - the birth place of a volcanic mountain range [good animation]
30. Teaching about Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics - plan for a virtual journey to the earth's center [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
31. Tectonic Plates - high quality transparency master
32. Tectonics and Earthquakes of Alaska - more than just plate boundaries (animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)
33. Tectonics of a Region (animations are available for each of the following, for preview in embedded YouTube)
    1. Gulf of California - tectonics
    2. Pacific Northwest - understanding future earthquakes in the pacific northwest
    3. Solomon Island - regional tectonics
    4. Sumatra Tectonics
34. What Happens When the Crust is Stretched? - exploring the basin and range (animations are available for preview in embedded YouTube)

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