Prepare a chart to compare how volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting, and plate movements affect the earth's surface features 0507.7.2

Links verified 9/19/2014

1. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics - a 41 slide PowerPoint show with excellent images and animations.
2. This Dynamic Earth - The story of Plate Tectonics from the USGS
3. Hell's Crust: Our Ever Changing Planet - from the PBS Savage Earth series, several good animations can be found at this site.
4. 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.]
5. 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
6. Major Types of Plate Boundaries - good illustration from the USGS
7. Movement of Seismic Waves - high quality transparency master
8. Moving Slabs - simple tectonic plate map from USGS
9. Observe animations of processes that occur along plate boundaries (transform, convergent and diverging)
10. Plate Tectonics - from a show hosted by WHYY
11. Plate Tectonics - the Cause of Earthquakes
12. Plate Tectonics map and a description of the three types of boundaries.
13. Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations - index of a large number of resources
14. 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.]
15. 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.]
16. Plate Tectonics Quiz - ten multiple-choice questions from Geography4Kids
17. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twelve multiple-choice questions, each on a separate page
18. Plate Tectonics Quiz - press Start then click on the named part of the drawing - his is hard! or
19. Plate Tectonics Quiz - twenty multiple-choice questions from Glencoe Science
20. Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service - In this section you can calculate plate tectonic reconstructions of any age back to 150 My.
21. Recent Earthquakes: Last 8 to 30 days - from USGS
22. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in) or
23. Subduction - the birth place of a volcanic mountain range [good animation]
24. 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.]
25. Tectonic Plates - high quality transparency master
26. Underground Igneous Rock Formations - high quality transparency master

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