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Crash Course

What Are Rocks and How Do They Form? Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
From towering mountains to pebbles along a river, the Earth is made of a huge variety of rocks. In today's episode, we're going to follow the rock cycle of a piece of granite in the Himalayan mountains, and as you'll see, every rock has...
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Professor Dave Explains

Classification of Igneous Rocks: Intrusive vs. Extrusive

9th - Higher Ed
Now that we know how igneous rocks form, what are the types of igneous rocks? This depends on precisely where they form, and we can call them either intrusive or extrusive. These can also be called either plutonic or volcanic. What do...
Instructional Video9:37
Professor Dave Explains

An Overview of Earth’s Layers

9th - Higher Ed
We only interact with the very surface of the Earth, called the crust. So what else is down there? What is the composition of the Earth? How many layers are there, and how do they differ? What is the mantle, and how does it convect? What...
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Geo Science Videos: Naming Igneous Rocks

9th - 10th
This video, produced by two science educators, describes how hot magma is converted to igneous rocks, one of the three major groups of rocks on Earth. It explains how geologists use texture (grain size) to identify if the magma that...