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The Earth is always changing. Mountains form and erode away. Volcanoes erupt and grow larger. Earthquakes shift the l...
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Explore the layers of our planet: the crust, mantle, and core.
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If you marked every active volcano in the world on a map, you'd start to notice a pattern. Most of the world's active...
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Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world!
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Most volcanoes form along plate boundaries. But some of the world's largest and most active volcanoes are found far f...
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When viewed from above, the wide-open sea is vast and flat. But venture below and you'll find a varied landscape that...
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If you look at a map, the coasts of South America and Africa seem to fit together like puzzle pieces.
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The plates that make up the Earth's crust are always moving. When two plates meet, the motion causes lots of pressure...
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Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.
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Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.
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Deep inside the Earth, intense heat and pressure can change rocks into entirely new metamorphic rocks.
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Some volcanoes erupt explosively, like opening a shaken soda bottle, because their magma is full of gases.
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Ed Mathez has always been fascinated by rocks and the Earth. As a young boy, he went with his mother to old rock quar...
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OLogy learning: Find resources for K-5 grade levels.
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Take a peek at our planet's layers, learn what secrets rocks reveal, and gain a long view of history.
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Test your knowledge about our planet Earth with this quiz.
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Guatemala is located in Central America. It sits south of Mexico and northwest of El Salvador and Honduras.
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Jade is a special and rare rock. For thousands of years, people around the world have been using this durable and bea...
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Find out how five different environments produce Earth's amazing minerals!
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Find out how paleontologist John Flynn answered kids' questions.
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Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!
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Because of the diamond-shaped plates on its back, Stegosaurus was given a name that means "roof lizard." 
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As you can tell from its body plates and tail spikes, this dinosaur is related to Stegosaurus. 
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How is the ocean like a layer cake? What creatures live there? And how important is the ocean? Take a dive and find out!
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The name Jurassic conjures images of tremendous dinosaurs roaming the Earth.
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This primitive armored dinosaur had bony plates and spikes that served almost like armor.
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What golden award is this? Take a guess!
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Plankton are the microscopic organisms of the sea. Just as plants form the basis for the ecosystem on land, phytoplan...
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Confuciusornis is the earliest-known toothless, beaked bird.
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This rare lizard lived in the Gobi Desert about 80 million years ago. 
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Make a model of Earth's layers that's good enough to eat!
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One look at Redondasaurus, and you might think it's a crocodile. After all, it has a similar long, armored body, with...
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Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.
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Why does this scientist love studying tiny living things called microbes?
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In these videos, a biologist introduces us to the microbes that live all around us.
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Dinoflagellates are tiny, one-celled organisms that live in oceans and freshwater ponds, rivers, and streams. Some di...