UNIT C - EARTH'S RESOURCES (GEOLOGY)
Minerals & Rocks
*soft vs hard water (in thanks to minerals) explanation
*water tastes different depending upon the country, or even the state (minerals and pollution)
How Glass is Made
*informative video, a little higher level thinking at parts (video)
*melting sand to glass at 0:31 = chemical change (video)
Weathering and Erosion
** website
* landslide Mount St. Helen's
*Chimney Rock (pioneers) / (today)
-compare then/now photo
*Grand Canyon (picture) (link for explanation)
Plate Tectonics
* Pangea (image)
* Pangea, 3 min. (video)
* the change of earth's continents, visual over mya, 3 min. (video)
* tectonic plates explanation/detailed (video)
* Bill Nye explanation, 2 min. (video)
Continents
* 7 continents and facts, 6 min (video)
* Antarctica (facts website) (NASA facts)
Landmass
1) Russia
2) Canada
3) US
4) China
5) Brazil
6) Australia (also is the smallest continent)
**Vatican City -- the smallest country in the world
Layers of the Earth
How we know what the core is made of (link)
Mission to reach Earth's mantle starting in 2012 (link from CNN)
Earth's lower crust discovered as of Dec. 2015 (link)
**The Kola Superdeep Borehole on the Kola peninsula of Russia reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) and is the deepest penetration of the Earth's solid surface. The German Continental Deep Drilling Program at 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) has shown the earth crust to be mostly porous. (Google search)
Volcanoes
Erupting in Hawaii (5) webcams
Pompeii, in Italy wiki
Earthquake
Universal amusement park ride in CA
CA earthquake in real time
Drill/Practice page
Tsunami
Japan video
(30 ft to over 1,700 ft high)
*soft vs hard water (in thanks to minerals) explanation
*water tastes different depending upon the country, or even the state (minerals and pollution)
How Glass is Made
*informative video, a little higher level thinking at parts (video)
*melting sand to glass at 0:31 = chemical change (video)
Weathering and Erosion
** website
* landslide Mount St. Helen's
*Chimney Rock (pioneers) / (today)
-compare then/now photo
*Grand Canyon (picture) (link for explanation)
Plate Tectonics
* Pangea (image)
* Pangea, 3 min. (video)
* the change of earth's continents, visual over mya, 3 min. (video)
* tectonic plates explanation/detailed (video)
* Bill Nye explanation, 2 min. (video)
Continents
* 7 continents and facts, 6 min (video)
* Antarctica (facts website) (NASA facts)
Landmass
1) Russia
2) Canada
3) US
4) China
5) Brazil
6) Australia (also is the smallest continent)
**Vatican City -- the smallest country in the world
Layers of the Earth
How we know what the core is made of (link)
Mission to reach Earth's mantle starting in 2012 (link from CNN)
Earth's lower crust discovered as of Dec. 2015 (link)
**The Kola Superdeep Borehole on the Kola peninsula of Russia reached 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) and is the deepest penetration of the Earth's solid surface. The German Continental Deep Drilling Program at 9.1 kilometres (5.7 mi) has shown the earth crust to be mostly porous. (Google search)
Volcanoes
Erupting in Hawaii (5) webcams
Pompeii, in Italy wiki
Earthquake
Universal amusement park ride in CA
CA earthquake in real time
Drill/Practice page
Tsunami
Japan video
(30 ft to over 1,700 ft high)