The+Active+Earth

The Active Earth

This presentation shows you some of the most important terminology for The Active Earth topic Here is a copy of your student booklet

Some useful wesites: [] Volcano world website [] [|http://earthquake.usgs.gov/bytopic/] [] [] [] - powerpoint [] animations of continental drift, plate boundaries, etc

Mount Pinatubo eruption:

This powerpoint gives you more information and some great pictures of Pinatubo Here are the Pinatubo pages from your text book []

For latitude and longitude see []

For a recap of where volcanoes occur and why, see []

See powerpoint for overview of plate movements.

Earthquakes:

See

[] = recent quakes [] = animations of plate boundaries [] How earthquakes happen. Why does the earth move? A guide to earthquakes.

 Have a go at the earthquake planning game on http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/information.html