Visual Learning Systems
Formation of Volcanic Mountains and Colliding Plates
This video discusses the formation of volcanic mountains and the role of lithospheric plate movement in this process. It explains how plates can interact with each other in different ways, such as moving away, towards, or sliding past...
Visual Learning Systems
Theory of Plate Tectonics
The video discusses the theory of plate tectonics, which was developed based on the discoveries made by scientists who elaborated on Wegener's theory of continental drift. The video also explains that there are seven major lithospheric...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collecting Data Below the Earth's Surface
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women demonstrates how scientists use sound waves to collect data about the structure of Earth's crust.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Earthquake Machine: Elastic Rebound & the Rock Demonstration
This demonstration shows that rocks are elastic by squeezing a slit core of solid rock. Energy is stored as potential energy while the rock is squeezed. [1:22]