Everything You Need to Know About Glaciers

Learn about

  • Types of Glaciers
  • Effects of Glaciers
  • Glacial Erosion
  • Glacial activity on other planets
  • Glacial Formation
  • Glacier Monitoring
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Rocks and Minerals

Learn about

  • Types of Rocks
  • Types of Minerals
  • Mineral Formation
  • Rock Weathering
  • Rock Cycle
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Everything You Need to Know About Tsunamis

Learn about tsunamis

  • Causes of Tsunamis
  • Effects of Tsunamis
  • Measuring Tsunamis
  • Preparing for Tsunamis
  • Historical Tsunamis
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Building a Career in Astronomy

Learn how to build a career, starting with education, in astronomy

Astronomy Education Through Telescopes

Learn about
  • Basics of Astronomy
  • Different Types of Telescopes
  • Astronomical Bodies
  • Constellations
  • Light and Magnitude

Everything You Need to Know About Plate Tectonics

Learn about

  • Fundamentals of Plate Tectonics
  • Plate Boundaries
  • Plate Motion
  • The Earth’s Layers
  • Plate Interactions
  • Tectonics on Other Terrestrial Planets
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Everything You Need to Know About Volcanoes

Learn about

  • Types of Volcanoes
  • Causes of Volcanoes
  • Effects of Volcanoes
  • Measuring Volcanoes
  • Volcanic Hazards
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Everything You Need to Know About Earthquakes

Learn about types of earthquakes, causes of earthquakes, effects of earthquakes, measuring earthquakes, and we mitigate against their effects. 

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The Layers of the Lithosphere

The lithosphere is a slow-moving, by human standards, system that is responsible for all geologic activity on our planet. This activity makes our planet unique in the solar system in that the other terrestrial planets no longer have this level of activity (Venus) or any at all (Mars and Mercury).
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The Pelagic Zones of the Ocean

The ocean a vast environment, with most ocean water being found in the unlit depths where life is assumed to not be abundant. However, the deeper pelagic zones are actually highly productive environments, contrary to what one might assume given the lightless nature of the deep-sea environment.
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Lake Vostok’s Potential for a Diverse, Undisturbed Microbial Ecosystem

Lake Vostok, a liquid lake deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, harbors a diverse undisturbed biological profile
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The Layers of the Atmosphere

Learn about the layers of the atmosphere and in what ways each is unique and important to preserving life on our planet
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