National Aquarium: Hydrothermal Vent Experiment
National Aquarium

Hydrothermal vents are only found in the deep sea, but you can replicate one at home with a few materials and a simple experiment!

Brains On! Smash: When Continents Collide!
Brains On!

How are mountains made? What causes an earthquake? How does hot lava come bubbling up? The answer in each case is…tectonic plates!

OLogy: Plates on the Move
OLogy (American Museum of Natural History)

Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes… Examine how plate tectonics affect our world.

Short Wave: What Did Earth Look Like 3.2 Billion Years Ago?
Short Wave (NPR)

Planetary scientist Roger Fu talks to host Maddie Sofia about hunting for rocks that can tell us what Earth looked like a few billion years ago, in the early days of the evolution of life.

California Academy of Sciences: Earthquakes and Tectonic Plates
California Academy of Sciences

How can we determine the locations of tectonic plate boundaries? How can we use seismic waves to pinpoint the epicenter of an earthquake? In this activity, students will explore these and other questions using seismic data and triangulation.

California Academy of Sciences: Plate Tectonics and Ancient Civilizations
California Academy of Sciences

Plate tectonics played an important role in providing opportunities for life to flourish.

California Academy of Sciences: Evidence of Plate Tectonics
California Academy of Sciences

Evidence from fossils, glaciers, and complementary coastlines helps reveal how plates once fit together.

California Academy of Sciences: Plate Tectonics - Shaping the Continents
California Academy of Sciences

Billions of years ago, Earth had supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together.

ThoughtCo: Reverse, Strike-Slip, Oblique, and Normal Faults
ThoughtCo.

In essence, faults are large cracks in the Earth’s surface where parts of the crust move in relation to one another.