Find out about what happens at plate boundaries.

This resource describes how the mechanical properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere change as the temperature and pressure increase. This can cause rocks to flow and become plastic-like.

Material to begin an exploration of volcanoes, earthquakes, and plate tectonics. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on volcano types, plate boundaries, and "hot spots," and ideas for...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How Pangaea split apart and formed the Atlantic Ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about geological processes that took place during the Precambrian Era. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.

Learn about the fundamental planetary process that has profoundly influenced the character and evolution of Earth, mantle convection.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a brief overview of plate tectonic processes. Includes a labeled illustration, images, and a few questions to check understanding.

This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the earth's tectonic plates. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

Earth's tectonic plates and how they move.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

In this video adapted from KUAC-TV and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, learn how tectonic plate movement is responsible for building mountains, such as the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountains. 2m 16s

Explains what tectonic plates are, what a divergent plate boundary is and some facts about them, and gives examples of divergent plate boundaries.

A classroom activity designed to introduce students to the process of observing and classifying data, in addition to the fundamentals of plate tectonics.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Volcanoes most often occur at plate boundaries.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate.

This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on divergent plate boundaries. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers convergent plate boundaries and oceanic plate subduction.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes convergent plate boundaries where two continental plates come together.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes convergent plate boundaries where two continental plates come together.

Covers divergent plate boundaries on land.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers transform plate boundaries on land and in the ocean.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers transform plate boundaries on land and in the ocean.

A data rich exercise built around four global data maps to help students discover the processes that occur at plate tectonic boundaries. The lesson is based on the jigsaw concept, mixing the students to work in different groups during...