Earth's
Forces!
Click on the links below for fun activities
for students to help learn about natural disasters and the earth's forces.
- Geography World: Matching
game, flash cards, concentration, and word searches relating to plate
tectonics and continental drift
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Volcanoes
On-Line: Great Thinkquest site about volcanoes, plate tectonics, and a
volcano database
- Volcano World: Lots of good
information and images
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Seismic Waves
and Tsunamis: 3-D simulator that shows cross-sections of how waves are
formed
- Beauty and the Beast:
Thinkquest site on natural disasters
-
Killer
Waves: Tsunamis: from National Geographic Kids
- Tsunami Warning!:
interactive story from FEMA for kids
- Volcanoes: Virtual Field
Trip
- Can We Predict
Volcanic Eruptions: excellent site about volcanoes with much more than
just forecasting
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How Volcanoes
Work: Informative site sponsored by NASA
- Earth Force: good site with an
index including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and avalanches
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Earthquakes 4 Kids:
site sponsored by USGS with educational activities
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Savage
Earth: articles and videos from PBS on earth's crust, volcanoes,
earthquakes, and tsunamis
- Earthquakes: excellent
site for kids from FEMA
- Volcanoes: excellent
site for kids from FEMA
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Volcano Science video: Excellent video with commentary from CNN
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Natural
Disasters: Thinkquest site on destructive forces of nature
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Forces of Nature:
Information and video from National Geographic
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Nature's Fury:
More information and videos from National Geographic
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