Recognize specific physical processes that operate on the earth's surface (i.e., erosion, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind and water currents, plate tectonics, and weathering). 7.3.11

Links verified 3/29/2011

1. Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics - (40 slides)
2. Plate Tectonics: what is it and what makes it work? - (12 slides)
3. Erosion and Sedimentation - posted by the University of Arizona
4. Erosion and Sedimentation Control - overview of methods used by North Carolina Department of Transportation, Roadside Environmental Unit
5. Erosion: Sediment Control - identifies several problem areas which might give your students ideas on things to investigate
6. Factors that contribute to rock weathering
7. Faults and Earthquakes - (43 slides, one very interesting slide compares the New Madrid [1811-1812] earthquake with the San Francisco [1906] earthquake)
8. Moving Rock - a 26 slide PowerPoint show
9. Science Odyssey: You Try It: Plate Tectonics - A hands-on exercise about plate tectonics and earthquakes from PBS. (requires Shockwave plug-in)
10. Sediments on the Move - part of a four step lesson on sediments and deposition
11. Soil Erosion - a ten-question multiple choice quiz
12. The Stages of a River - high quality transparency master
13. Weathering and Erosion - suggestions for lab activities investigating erosion - Twelve handouts are available to print and use with the lab above - look in the Activities and Labs section
14. Weathering and Soil - a twenty-question multiple choice quiz
15. Weathering of Rocks - complete and extensive information about factors related to rocks breaking down

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