A little bit of help for year 8 with their homework....

Year 8 need to do some research for their title page homework. The following links might help you....

http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate.htm is more information about plate tectonics

The map here http://www.iris.edu/seismon/ will show you where all the recent earthquakes have occurred. This one will too: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

Information about the 10 biggest earthquakes on the Guardian site at http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1380312,00.html

Volcano world at http://volcano.und.edu/ has lots of information!