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Plate Tectonic Cycle

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Students explore the Earth's movements by completing worksheets. In this plate tectonics lesson, students define such natural disasters as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and mudslides and discuss their connections to plate tectonics. Students complete worksheets which explain the cycle of plate tectonics and the impact their movements have on us all.

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continents and oceans, earth's movements, earthquakes and tsunamis, plate tectonic worksheets, science
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Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
5 days
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