Hydrothermal vents are only found in the deep sea, but you can replicate one at home with a few materials and a simple experiment!
How are mountains made? What causes an earthquake? How does hot lava come bubbling up? The answer in each case is…tectonic plates!
Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes… Examine how plate tectonics affect our world.
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.
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.
Plate tectonics played an important role in providing opportunities for life to flourish.
Most seismic activity occurs in the narrow zones between plates.
Evidence from fossils, glaciers, and complementary coastlines helps reveal how plates once fit together.
Billions of years ago, Earth had supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together.
In essence, faults are large cracks in the Earth’s surface where parts of the crust move in relation to one another.
