Other Resources & Links

• http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
  Web site for NOAA’s Ocean Exploration program

• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/index.html
  NOAA’s hydrothermal vent website

• http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html#anchor19309449 Online version of “This Dynamic Earth,” a thorough publication of the U.S. Geological Survey on plate tectonics written for a non-technical audience

• http://www.volcano.si.edu/tdpmap/
  “This Dynamic Planet,” map and explanatory text showing Earth’s physiographic features, plate movements, and locations of volcanoes, earthquakes, and impact craters

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2609_abyss.html Nova Teachers Web site, Volcanoes of the Deep Classroom Activity to research and classify symbiotic relationships between individual organisms of different species

• http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03fire/logs/subduction_vr.html 3-Dimensional "subduction zone" plate boundary video

• http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03fire/logs/ridge.html
  3-Dimensional structure of a "mid-ocean ridge," where two of the Earth's tectonic plates are spreading apart

• http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
  Volcano World Web site from Oregon State University

• http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/bio_gallery/biogallery1.html NeMO Explorer animal gallery

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For More Information

Contact:
Paula Keener
Director, Education Programs
NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

Other lesson plans developed for this Web site are available in the Education Section.

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