…students use to make these connections. Look at the picture of the Earth Rocks Map below, which shows igneous rocks found at the surface of South America. The plate boundary…
…of 8 on the VEI scale, came from an underwater volcano and sent towering ocean waves around the Pacific Ocean, causing tsunami warnings to be issued in coastal South Pacific…
…or ice in the winter. Figure 1. Calculated and measured insolation on a south-facing surface. In the summer, the Sun is high in the sky. A south-facing plate doesn’t get…
…“lab,” and highly structured computer languages can be adapted to exercises that can be easily auto-scored. Recent MOOCs offered in other domains simply do not attempt to face this challenge,…
…more productive paths. For example, spectral or wavelet analysis can be used to calculate the frequency of using a design or test tool. Auto-correlation analysis can be used to find…
…which an ice sheet forms at the South Pole. Matthew Huber, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue, said roughly a 40 percent decrease in carbon dioxide occurred…
…along the fault deforms over time as the two plates move north and south. Figure 1. GeoCoder with block code (left) and a visual representation of two tectonic plates (right)….
…in the winter. The conventional wisdom is that the south-facing side of the roof is a good place to put solar panels. But very few houses face exact south. This…
…Wonder Lab exhibit. Moving farther south, we visited the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, where an immense, airy space houses corners with multiple galleries of permanent and…
…On June 12, 2017, newspapers worldwide reported on a 6.3 magnitude earthquake south of the island of Lesbos, Greece (off the western coast of Turkey). The quake caused widespread structural…