Places to go while searching the Web!

 

All about Plate Tectonics

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml

Mountain Maker Earth Shaker

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/shockwave.html

Pangaea puzzle

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/Pangaea_game.html

 

Other helpful sites for whole webquest.

Extreme science: a lesson in plate tectonics

http://www.extremescience.com/PlateTectonicsmap.htm

This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (Provides Maps, History, and Mechanisms) Great resource from USGS.  

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html

PALEOMAP Project  (Provides Animation of Plate Migration) Click on Animations.           

http://www.scotese.com/

Geology: Plate Tectonics (Provides Animation of Plate Migration)           

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea (Provides History of Development of the Theory)           

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html

Plate Tectonics: The Mechanism (Provides Mechanisms for Plate Tectonics           

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tecmech.html

 

Where you may find boundary information:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml

USGS Ring of Fire             
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/description_plate_tectonics.html


Help with Alfred Wegener information:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener
 
Help with boundaries:
 
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates4.html
 
http://geology.com/nsta/convergent-plate-boundaries.shtml
 
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/plate.html