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Plate tectonics : teacher notes and student activities
The Plate Tectonics education resource comprises;
<li>56 page booklet including the concepts behind plate tectonics, the internal structure of Earth, three types of plate boundaries, evidence in support of plate tectonics such as palaeomagnetism, and examples of plate tectonics' importance</li>
<li>5 reproducible student activities</li>
<li>suggested answers</li>
The booklet reviews the nature of Earth's outer layers and how they interact to create moving continents, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. Activities cover key concepts of plate tectonic theory.
Suitable for secondary level Years 7-12
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00
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2
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/14798
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Australian Geological Survey Organisation
Canberra Author Lewis, G.B.
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Record
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1995/008
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0642223122
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- Completed
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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
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- Geoscientific information
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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GA Publication
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Record
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- Theme
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geoscience education
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plate tectonics
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palaeomagnetism
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volcanology
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Educational Product
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Earth Sciences
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Published_External
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 1995
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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- English
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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- OnLine resource
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Download the Record (pdf – 2.91MB)
Download the Record (pdf – 2.91MB)
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pdf
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GA Publication
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
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GA publication: Record
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
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- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-05-08T01:46:44.497Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-05-08T01:48:27.362Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 1999-08-05T00:00:00
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
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