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The Earth is always changing. Mountains form and erode away. Volcanoes erupt and grow larger. Earthquakes shift the land...

Play to explore how the movement of tectonic plates affect our planet.

Find out why and how volcanoes form.

Find out what happens when magma rises from intensely hot areas in Earth's mantle. 

Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out more about them!

Explore the layers of our planet: the crust, mantle, and core.
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 vo...

What causes mountains to rise?

Did you know that all continents on Earth were once a huge supercontinent?

Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world!
Most volcanoes form along plate boundaries. But some of the world's largest and most active volcanoes are found far from...
When viewed from above, the wide-open sea is vast and flat. But venture below and you'll find a varied landscape that in...
If you look at a map, the coasts of South America and Africa seem to fit together like puzzle pieces.
The plates that make up the Earth's crust are always moving. When two plates meet, the motion causes lots of pressure to...

Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.

Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.
Some volcanoes erupt explosively, like opening a shaken soda bottle, because their magma is full of gases.
Deep inside the Earth, intense heat and pressure can change rocks into entirely new metamorphic rocks.

After 200 million years apart, this rock finally reunited with its long-lost cousin. 
Ed Mathez has always been fascinated by rocks and the Earth. As a young boy, he went with his mother to old rock quarrie...

OLogy learning: Find resources for K-5 grade levels.

Take a peek at our planet's layers, learn what secrets rocks reveal, and gain a long view of history.

Test your knowledge about our planet Earth with this quiz.
Guatemala is located in Central America. It sits south of Mexico and northwest of El Salvador and Honduras.
Jade is a special and rare rock. For thousands of years, people around the world have been using this durable and beauti...

Meet a rock that has been through it all: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Find out how five different environments produce Earth's amazing minerals!

Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!

Find out how paleontologist John Flynn answered kids' questions.
Because of the diamond-shaped plates on its back, Stegosaurus was given a name that means "roof lizard." 
As you can tell from its body plates and tail spikes, this dinosaur is related to Stegosaurus. 

How is the ocean like a layer cake? What creatures live there? And how important is the ocean? Take a dive and find out!

With just a straw, some clay, a paper plate, and a few other items, you can make a tool to find out what direction the winds usually blow in your area.
The name Jurassic conjures images of tremendous dinosaurs roaming the Earth.
This primitive armored dinosaur had bony plates and spikes that served almost like armor.

Jadeite is like a time capsule. It holds important clues about some of Earth's big events. 

Tools help scientists get a closer look at jade and all its chemical elements. 

What golden award is this? Take a guess!
Plankton are the microscopic organisms of the sea. Just as plants form the basis for the ecosystem on land, phytoplankto...
Confuciusornis is the earliest-known toothless, beaked bird.
This rare lizard lived in the Gobi Desert about 80 million years ago. 

Make a model of Earth's layers that's good enough to eat!
One look at Redondasaurus, and you might think it's a crocodile. After all, it has a similar long, armored body, with a ...

Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.

Photos and details about the diversity of crocodilians and birds.

Why does this scientist love studying tiny living things called microbes?

In these videos, a biologist introduces us to the microbes that live all around us.
Dinoflagellates are tiny, one-celled organisms that live in oceans and freshwater ponds, rivers, and streams. Some dinof...

From oceans to rivers, sharks, rays, and skates are everywhere. And they’re so diverse! Get to know the different kinds.