geology

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• - Learn how to identify minerals, grow crystals and create a collection or dig into brainteasers, puzzles and games.
  
• - Provides brief facts about soil such as what it is and how it is formed.
  
• - Interactive exhibit about the earth's movements. From the Franklin Institute Science Museum.
  
• - A flash animated story of an igneous rock and its discovery of who it really is by learning about the rock cycle.
  
• - Learn about rocks and minerals. Ask questions and play mineral games online.
  
• - Explores plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, and the way they shape the earth.
  
• - Learn about the earth by reading short articles on plate tectonics, cycles, geologic time, adaptation and more.
  
• - Introduces four basic types of disasters unique to Hawaii and information on how individuals can better prepare themselves should they occur.
  
• - Get the shakedown on volcanoes and quakes in New Zealand. Explore free downloads and learn what it takes to become a Geologist.
  
• - Learn how Biology, Geology, Hydrology, and Geography can help us understand our changing world.
  
• - Comprehensive information about the many types of minerals in the world.
  
• - Investigate ocean energy, sand and tide pool math. Visit an offshore oil rig and learn about archaeological shipwreck sites.
  
• - Learn how to grow a crystal garden. Offers a description of what causes the crystals to grow.
  
• - A science that deals with the history of the earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks.
  
• - Learn about Yellowstone National Park with games and activities like the Animal Alphabet Book, the Yellowstone Coloring Book and a Scavenger Hunt.
  
• - Explore a photo gallery of gems, volcanoes, rocks, minerals and meteorites. Offers research, collections and exhibits.
  
• - Learn how to grow crystals using Alum. These crystals grow in three days and you choose the colors.
  
• - The Kentucky Geological Survey offers recipes for appetizers, desserts and other food that help to explain earth-science concepts.
  
• - Learn why granites are like ice cream.
  
• - Offers an animated, interactive timeline about continental drift, fossils and rocks, 10 virtual walks around Great Britain, field trips and experiments.