Earth's Structure & Landforms

• Stream Table Lab – Erosion, Transport, Deltas and Freeze–Thaw Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A virtual stream table seen from above. Set the water flow, the slope, the sediment and earlier freeze–thaw cycles,... Ages 15–16
• Coastal Processes – Landforms and Management Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A map of a 3 km stretch of coast with a cross-section wherever you choose. Set the wave type (constructive or... Ages 15–16
• Glacial Landscapes – Glacier Advance, Retreat and Landforms Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A map and long profile of a 30 km mountain valley. Change temperature and snowfall to shift the glacier's mass... Ages 15–16
• River Processes and Landforms – Source to Mouth Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms The long profile of a 100 km river, divided into upper, middle and lower course. Drag the survey site along the... Ages 15–16
• Relative dating of rock strata – cross-section puzzles, unconformities and the geological time scale Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms Read geological cross-sections like a geologist. Tap the lettered rock units and events from oldest to youngest... Ages 15–16
• Tectonic plates – divergent, convergent and transform boundaries; earthquakes and volcanoes Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A cross-section of two tectonic plates drifting on a mantle with convection currents. Choose a boundary type: plates... Ages 11–12
• Mineral and rock identification lab – hardness, streak, lustre, cleavage, density and the acid test Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A virtual practical with ten unknown mineral samples. Scratch each one with a fingernail, a copper coin, a glass... Ages 15–16
• Internal and External Forces – Folding, Faulting, Erosion and Deposition Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A cross-section of Earth's crust with horizontal rock layers. Choose compression (two plates push together, folding... Ages 15–16
• Natural Hazard Risk – Impacts and Responses Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms Choose a hazard (earthquake, volcanic eruption, tropical cyclone or river flood) and set its size, its distance from... Ages 15–16
• 3D 3D Seismic Waves and Earth's Interior – P- and S-wave Shadow Zones Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A 3D globe cut in half shows the crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core with their real depths and... Ages 11–12
• Sediments and past environments – sieve analysis, grain shape, cores and facies maps Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A virtual sediment lab. Shake 200 g of dune, beach, shallow-sea, river or glacial sand through a stack of sieves... Ages 15–16
• Continental drift – rebuild Pangaea from Wegener's evidence Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A world map with the continents where they are today and the evidence Alfred Wegener used: fossils of Mesosaurus,... Ages 15–16
• The Rock Cycle – Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A cross-section through mountains, a volcano, a river, the sea and a subducting ocean plate. Pick or tap a rock... Ages 15–16
• Locating an earthquake – S–P triangulation, Richter magnitude, Mercalli intensity and tsunami warning Geography · Earth's Structure & Landforms A seismology lab. Three stations record an earthquake: drag the P and S markers onto the arrivals on each... Ages 15–16

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