Dynamic Planet

Key Documents

Watch these volcanoes in Hawaii explode! 

You will need to complete the following labs during this unit.  Please check with me or the parent portal to see what labs you are missing.  I will have extra copies for you in case you are absent or you lost your lab. 

• Continental Drift
• Plate Tectonics
• P & S Waves 1
• P & S Waves 2
• P & S Waves 3
• Rice Krispie Plate Tectonics

 Useful Links

• IRIS Seismic Activity Map
• United States Geological Survey
• Paleomaps Project
• Video of Pangaea breaking up
• Interactive Pangaea Game
• FEMA's Earthquake Safety
• Wave That Shook the World - Sumatra 2004
• Seafloor Spreading
• Can You Find the Fault? Interactive
• Compasses Point South?
• Faultline

The Tsunami in Japan

Links related to this crisis: 

• Comparison of the coast before and after
• How bad is is the radiation?
• Watch Japan's Killer Quake online (via NOVA)
• Tsunami Mapper (could Islip be hit next?)

See how much destruction an earthquake can cause! 

Having troubling calculating the epicenter of an earthquake?   

Check out this fabulous video made by the Hammocks Earth science department!