SciShow
The Complicated Lives of Mountains | Compilation
It’s easy to discount the history and evolution of mountains on our jagged world, but they really hold an immense amount of information about history within them. From mountain ranges in space, to why Earth isn’t a waterworld, here are...
Bozeman Science
Geology
In this video Paul Andersen explains how rock is formed and changed on the planet. The video begins with a brief description of rocks, minerals, and the rock cycle. Plate tectonics is used to describe structure near plate boundaries. Hot...
Wonderscape
The Forces Behind Earthquakes: Tectonic Dynamics Explained
Unpack the geological processes that cause earthquakes, from the structure of the Earth's layers to the movement of tectonic plates. Understand the types of plate boundaries and the phenomena of seismic waves and fault lines, which...
Professor Dave Explains
Volcanoes: Formation, Types, and Activity
It's time to talk about everyone's favorite geological feature, volcanoes! What are these things? Why do they erupt? What are the different types of volcanoes? How do they form? What happens to their lava? Let's learn about all of these...
Curated Video
How do Earthquakes Happen /What is an Earthquake
Learn about how earthquakes happen, and Divergent, Convergent And Transform boundaries with this fun educational song about tectonic plate boundaries. This video is and adults. Brought to you by KLT. Don't forget to sing along.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Plate Boundaries
This video is about tectonic plates and plate boundaries. It explains the three main types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform. The video also gives examples of each type of boundary and how they affect the Earth's...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring Tectonic Plates and Earth's Landforms
This video is an educational lesson about tectonic plates and their movements. It explains the Continental Drift Theory and provides evidence to support it. The video also discusses the formation of tectonic plates, their movements at...
Visual Learning Systems
Formation of Volcanic Mountains and Colliding Plates
This video discusses the formation of volcanic mountains and the role of lithospheric plate movement in this process. It explains how plates can interact with each other in different ways, such as moving away, towards, or sliding past...
TED-Ed
The Pangaea Pop-up
The amazing animation for a video on continental drift is comprised of the pages of a sophisticated pop-up book, The Moving Earth. As the pages turn, your earth scientists discover the tectonic plates of the lithosphere and the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Plate Tectonics: Lake Mead, Nevada
Using animations to illustrate the theory of plate tectonics, this video segment adapted from Discovering Women takes you to Lake Mead, Nevada, to see visual evidence of how plate movement has been stretching the North American...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Himalayan Megaquake Future Earthquake Potential
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Gorkha region killed more than 8,000 people in 2015. Learn how historical records and GPS technology can predict earthquakes in the future in the Himalayan region. Additional resources, a background...
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Plate Tectonics
This resource provides a video about plate tectonics.
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Mid Ocean Ridges
Watch a video depicting the formation of a mid-ocean ridge. The resource also has two additional lessons requiring you to apply your knowledge of mid-ocean ridge location and formation.
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Subduction Zones
This video explains the process of subduction between two oceanic plates as well as a continental plate and oceanic plate. Links to two additional subduction activities are also available.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Spreading and Subducting Can Move Continents
A video investigating subduction zone. [1:58]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Elastic Rebound on High Friction Strike Slip Fault
Animation shows the buildup of stress along the margin of two stuck plates that are trying to slide past one another deforming rock. [33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Geological Features of Divergent Plate Boundaries
A video lecture exploring plate tectonics. Learn about the core layers and what causes the layers to spread apart causing a divergent plate boundary. Video also gives examples of divergent boundaries found around the globe. [11:57]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Convergent Plate Boundaries
Explore the geological features of convergent plate boundaries in this video. Learn that as the plates come together a volcano, a earthquake or more could occur. [6:03]
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Earthquakes: Divergent Boundary
Nice, visual animation showing what happens under the Earth's surface at a divergent boundary.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Plate Boundaries: Three Types Differentiated
Learn to define a tectonic or lithospheric plate; differentiate between continental and oceanic plates; differentiate between the 3 types of plate boundaries; and learn about the generalized seismicity associated with boundaries. [6:58]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Tectonic (Lithospheric) Plates: Commonly Confused With Crust
Video lecture on four basic types of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent (spreading), transform (strike-slip), and convergent (subduction and continental collision) types of plate boundaries. [2:03]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Plate Boundaries: Convergent, Divergent, Transform
Video lecture on divergent, transform, and convergent types of plate boundaries. [1:30]
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Fault: Strike Slip
Visualize how a horizontal fault moves. [0:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Geological Features Convergent Plate Boundaries
This video discusses the geological features of convergent plate boundaries. [6:03]