Geology

This interactive earth science site from The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution tells the story of the earth's history through rocks.

A rock cycle WebQuest.

Be a rocks and minerals detective in this WebQuest.

Photos of different types of rocks.

A plate tectonics experiment.

A web site with plate techtonics information.

Email an earth science question to a USGS geologist.

Visit a volcano from the Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Information and photos of volcanoes all around the world.

PBS site on earthquakes and volcanoes.

Site from the National Earthquake Information Center.

The epicenter of earthquake information for kids and teachers on the Web.

Physical Geography Textbook Physical Geography online textbook contains over three hundred pages of information and more than four hundred 2-D illustrations, photographs, and animated graphics organized into ten chapters. Important key terms in the text are linked to an interactive glossary of terms.
Earth - Our World in Motion This is an OLogy site from the American Museum of Natural History. It has a number of offerings in geology and an especially good section on plate tectonics.
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