This resource is a place for learning all about the Earth--the Earth's layers, its history, rocks and minerals, and interesting Earth science facts and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet American Museum of...

Interactive activity that allows the learner to make their own regional map using layers of their choice such as volcanoes, craters, plate tectonics, or earthquakes. This map of the Earth zooms in and out, highlights essential processes,...

Find lots of information about our planet Earth here. Covers basic facts, Earth's history, layers of the Earth, plate tectonics, composition of the atmosphere, Earth's magnetic field, and some facts about our moon.

Take a look at the layers that make up our Earth: inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. Then have fun making a model of the Earth's interior that you can eat up.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at how stratigraphy can be used to determine the relative ages of rocks, how unconformities occur, ways to match rock layers in different areas, and how...

This site provides information about the geologic relationships of rock layers, as well as much about geologic time and the history of Earth.

Interactive site provides information on each layer of the earth. Click on a layer to discover more about it.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the different layers of soil.

Read about the pioneers in Earth's geologic history and their discovery of how the process of uniformitarianism shaped the study of evolution.

This article explains that as our knowledge of life on the planet evolves, we've come to use the word biosphere as a way of explaining the entire intertwined network of life on Earth. This concept combines an understanding of geology,...

Find out what the fossil record tells scientists about the geologic and biological history of the Earth.