Join Isla and Connor as they explore features of tectonic movement ... The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates.

The Earth's plates jostle about ... stems from the interplay where the plates meet or divide. The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates ...

The engine behind the earthquake machine is plate tectonics ... layer of the Earth is shown through the shell. 5. Now ask the students to squeeze their eggs gently until slight movement of ...

The video moves in reverse chronological order, beginning ... of movement are essential to research initiatives that dig into Earth's history, geologic periods, and hidden tectonic plates.

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

This program explores the composition of our Earth, and delves deep into the tectonic plates, their history and the different types of processes and landforms that occur at each boundary. ABC iview ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that ... have lived at the same time on what are now widely separated continents. You probably wouldn't recognize the Earth if you could see it 225 million years ...

Earth's surface ... when Earth's plates first cracked apart. In fact, as new methods allow scientists to look ever-deeper into the past, some are now arguing that plate tectonics emerged very ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Intermediate-depth earthquakes ...

When one tectonic plate subducts beneath ... magmas rising toward the Earth's surface become saturated with a water-rich fluid, which is then released as bubbles of magmatic fluid," explains Stefan ...