Plate tectonics globe basketball activity

Help students visualise plate boundaries on a spherical Earth, rather than on a flat map. The model shows plate boundaries and land masses, and highlights our own Indo-Australian plate. Ready to cut out and construct (basketball required). Assembly instructions included. Suitable for primary Years 5 - 6 and secondary Years 7 - 12.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2015-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Creation)
2015-01-01
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/83875

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Geoscience Australia

 Canberra
Author

Davis, L.I.

 1
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Iffland, D.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Theme

  • Educational Product

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2015

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download zip folder with all files (pdf – 3.23MB)

Download zip folder with all files (pdf – 3.23MB)

OnLine resource

Download file – African Plate (pdf – 548kb)

Download file – African Plate (pdf – 548kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – South American and Arabian Plate (pdf – 312kb)

Download file – South American and Arabian Plate (pdf – 312kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Philippine, Cocos, Caribbean and Nazca Plates (pdf – 288kb)

Download file – Philippine, Cocos, Caribbean and Nazca Plates (pdf – 288kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Pacific Plate 2 (pdf – 312kb)

Download file – Pacific Plate 2 (pdf – 312kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Pacific Plate 1 (pdf – 308kb)

Download file – Pacific Plate 1 (pdf – 308kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Antarctic Plate (pdf – 304kb)

Download file – Antarctic Plate (pdf – 304kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Eurasian Plate 1 (pdf – 348kb)

Download file – Eurasian Plate 1 (pdf – 348kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Eurasian Plate 2 (pdf – 344kb)

Download file – Eurasian Plate 2 (pdf – 344kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – Indo-Australian Plate (pdf – 312kb)

Download file – Indo-Australian Plate (pdf – 312kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

OnLine resource

Download file – North American Plate (pdf – 332kb)

Download file – North American Plate (pdf – 332kb)

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

NA

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

Educational Product

Description

Source data not available.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/19d9bd51-24d6-1f83-e053-10a3070a2f5f

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA publication: Activity

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/83875

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/19d9bd51-24d6-1f83-e053-10a3070a2f5f

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/19d9bd51-24d6-1f83-e053-10a3070a2f5f

Date info (Creation)
2025-05-08T02:04:40.516Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-08T02:05:55.275Z
Date info (Creation)
2015-07-02T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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