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E.   Explain the processes that move and shape Earth’s surface.

 

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Plate Tectonics
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/jh/earth/platetectonics/index.html
This fantastic site has loads of information on plate tectonics, including online lessons, pictures, diagrams, labs, a dictionary, a review test, and a printable teacher guide in Acrobat format.

This Dynamic Earth
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
This web site from the USGS has seven sections covering all aspects of plate tectonics, with great explanations, diagrams, and pictures.

You Try It: Plate Tectonics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/
This PBS website teaches all about plate tectonics and what happens at the boundaries. There is even a shockwave activity that allows the user to slide the plates around to make mountains, volcanoes, trenches, and earthquakes.


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