TED-Ed
TED-ED: The Pangaea Pop-up - Michael Molina
The supercontinent Pangaea, with its connected South America and Africa, broke apart 200 million years ago. But the continents haven't stopped shifting -- the tectonic plates beneath our feet (in Earth's two top layers, the lithosphere...
Wonderscape
The Formation of Earth and the Seven Continents
Discover how Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of dust and gas to a planet with continents. Learn about the process of continental drift and how it shaped the seven continents we know today. The 7 Continents part 1
Professor Dave Explains
The Wilson Cycle and Plate Boundaries
We just learned about plate tectonics, so let's see how that fits into a global-scale model for the formation and destruction of supercontinents called the Wilson Cycle. How do supercontinents like Pangea form and split up? It's an...
Next Animation Studio
Powerful ‘river of rocks’ found deep under caribbean
Scientists found that an ancient magma bloom is pushing hot rock from the Pacific into th
Professor Dave Explains
The Purpose of Mixed Economies
We've talked about free market economies and command economies, but the truth of the matter is that nearly every country on Earth utilizes a mixed economy, which blends aspects of each of the aforementioned economy types. Whether talking...
Professor Dave Explains
Earthquakes and Seismology in Earth’s Interior
We just learned about all the layers of the Earth, but how did we accumulate this information? How do we know the composition of these layers and the depths at which they occur? The answer is seismology! Let's learn about the different...
Visual Learning Systems
Topography and the Earth: Earth Layers Based on Physical Properties
This program describes the major topographical features of Earth including mountains, plains, and plateaus. Footage from throughout North America takes students to the Rocky Mountains, the plains of Iowa, and the Colorado Plateau to...
TED-Ed
The Pangaea Pop-up
The amazing animation for a video on continental drift is comprised of the pages of a sophisticated pop-up book, The Moving Earth. As the pages turn, your earth scientists discover the tectonic plates of the lithosphere and the...
Khan Academy
Structure of the Earth
Salman Khan delves into the layers of the Earth. He provides names and general numbers about depths and composition.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Compositional and Mechanical Layers of the Earth
Discover plate tectonics and the compositional and mechanical layers of the earth including: Crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Plate Tectonics: Structure of the Earth
Explains in more detail the different layers that make up the structure of the Earth. [9:33]