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 9/19/2014

1. Animations - Plate Tectonics animation
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. How the Plates Move - a lesson from Volcano World [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.]
7. 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
8. Major Types of Plate Boundaries - good illustration from the USGS
9. Movement of Seismic Waves - high quality transparency master
10. Moving Slabs - simple tectonic plate map from USGS
11. Observe animations of processes that occur along plate boundaries (transform, convergent and diverging)
12. Paleomap Earth History maps
13. Paleomap VR animations
14. Plate Tectonics - from a show hosted by WHYY
15. Plate Tectonics - the Cause of Earthquakes
16. Plate Tectonics map and a description of the three types of boundaries.
17. Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations - index of a large number of resources
18. 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.]
19. 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.]
20. Plate Tectonics Quiz - ten multiple-choice questions from Geography4Kids
21. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twelve multiple-choice questions, each on a separate page
22. Plate Tectonics Quiz - press Start then click on the named part of the drawing - his is hard! or
23. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twenty multiple-choice questions from Glencoe Science
24. Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - In this section you can calculate plate tectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
25. Recent Earthquakes: Last 8 to 30 days - from USGS
26. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in) or
27. Subduction - the birth place of a volcanic mountain range [good animation]
28. 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.]
29. Tectonic Plates - high quality transparency master
30. Underground Igneous Rock Formations - high quality transparency master

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