Inside Earth

Geography

The movement of tectonic plates

Plate boundaries

Types of volcanoes

Volcanic hazards

Living close to volcanoes

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo

Earthquakes

The effects of earthquakes

Living in earthquake regions

The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

The 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that lead to tectonic hazards and investigates the geographical pattern of hazards across the world. Pupils will also learn how tectonic hazards affect people in different places and how people seek to manage hazards.

Tectonic hazards: Why is Earth restless?

A force pushing or pressing on a given area

The mass of something compared to its volume

A form of liquid that doesn't have a specific shape

Only earthquakes happen on tectonic plates

Do earthquakes and volcanoes only happen on tectonic plates?

Which layer of Earth is primarily made of solid iron and nickel?

A crack in Earth's crust that releases lava

The release of gas, ash, and molten rock from a volcano

A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates

Starter Quiz

What is Earth's outermost layer called?