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Interactive Learning - Geography

The following Macromedia Shockwave sites are excellent for some interactive revision and can assist in the learning process.

Savage Earth - Tsunami Attack - Track a tsunami's path of destruction. Watch how an underwater earthquake generates this deadly wall of water.

Savage Earth - Catching a Tsunami - Watch how a simulated tidal wave spreads across the Pacific from its South American origin.

Savage Earth - Earthquake Animation - View an earthquake in progress as its waves travel from the starting point, across the Earth's layers, and to the surface.

Savage Earth - Earthquakes - Shake, rattle, and roll with these illustrations of fault movements and seismic waves as they travel across the Earth's layers.

Savage Earth - Learning From Quakes - Article on the 1994 Northridge earthquake illustrates the difference between a blind thrust fault and a normal fault.

Savage Earth - Hell's Crust - Take a journey into the bowels of the green planet. Watch as its various layers reveal the secrets of volcanoes and emerging land masses.

Savage Earth - Hot Zones - Travel through planet Earth's layers to see what factors influence the formation of a new crust.

Savage Earth - Volcanic Eruption - Cross-section illustrations of a stratovolcano track the various stages of a volcanic eruption.

Plate Tectonics - Move any of the four tectonic plates to start an earthquake, make land masses collide, spread the seas, or initiate your own continental drift.

GPS - The New Navigation - Use this activity to learn how the Global Positioning Systems works. Project simulates how a satellite finds your location on earth.

Find Your Longitude - You are lost at sea and all you have is the sun, a clock, and a sextant. Use those tools to figure out the longitude of where you are.

Guide to the 50 States - Click on this map of the US to find descriptions and location details regarding each of the fifty states.

India - Snapshot Tour of Nature - There's more to why India is called The Land of The Tiger. Learn about the subcontinent's wildlife by clicking on areas of the map.

Min/Max Thermometer - Learn how to read and record the day's high and low temperatures without tuning in to the Weather Forecast.

National Geographic - Explore the Fantastic Forest - Use the map to discover the flora and fauna of the night forest. Solve the riddle to cross the stream, then build your own forest scene.

National Geographic - Gaza - Check out this interactive map which tracks the geographical border changes at the Gaza strip from 1922 to the present.

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Get Shockwave from Macromedia - its Free and you can enjoy all of these sites.

What is Shockwave?

Shockwave & Flash Player let you experience animation and entertainment in your Web browser. The new Shockwave 7 provides auto-updating of the player.

 
















































 

     


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