Volcanoes & Earthquakes
by Anonymous
Push plates together, slide them past each other, or pull them apart to see how mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes form.
About this app
Volcanoes & Earthquakes is an interactive middle-school science app about what happens at tectonic plate boundaries. Explore pull-apart, push-together, and sliding boundaries, then practice earthquake magnitude comparisons and use the arrival-time gap between P and S waves to estimate epicentre distance.
Use cases
- Middle-school students learning about plate tectonics
- Teachers introducing volcanoes and earthquakes
- Learners reviewing earthquake magnitude and energy
- Science classes practicing P-wave and S-wave concepts
Features
- Interactive plate-boundary questions about volcanoes and earthquakes
- Exercises comparing magnitude and energy, including the 32× relationship
- P-wave and S-wave time-gap activities linked to epicentre distance
- Step-by-step missions with feedback and progress dots
- Reset and next controls for guided practice