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Unit 1 ~ The Restless Mediterranean

Games


http://kids.discovery.com/games/build-play/volcano-explorer - Exploring Volcanoes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/ - Earthquakes



Useful Links

http://www.dreamteach.co.uk/uploads/resources/files/342.swf  - Volcanoes and Features of a Cross-section of a Volcano



http://www.dreamteach.co.uk/uploads/resources/files/334.swf  - Earthquakes, Seismograph and Richter Scale & Mercalli Scales



Videos


How was earth formed?




What is an aftershock?
An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after the main tremor (earthquake).


Earthquake Destruction




How do tsunamis relate to earthquakes?




What is a tsunami?




Why earthquakes happen?




How do earthquakes happen?




Earthquakes




What are earthquakes? How do they form?




How do mountains form?



Plate Tectonics



How to build an erupting volcano



Introduction to Volcanoes



What are Volcanoes?
What are their negative and positive effects?




Pangea

Once all the continents were joined in one large super continent called Pangea. With plate movement, the continents started to drift apart and Pangea separated into Gondwanaland and Laurasia until present day location of the continents. This movement also formed the present Mediterranean Sea.




Convection Currents




The Inner Structure of Earth

 








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