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Interactive exploration Earth, Weather & Climate Earthquakes and seismic waves How can three stations help locate an earthquake? Watch waves emerge from a buried source, pick synthetic arrivals and reveal the location one clue at a time. Test the clocks, depth and velocity assumptions—and compare the model with real recorded evidence.
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Interactive exploration Earth, Weather & Climate The greenhouse effect How can a planet warm without receiving more sunlight? Freeze two model temperatures, change infrared transfer and release time. Follow every energy route, move the accounting boundary and compare the model with real atmospheric evidence.
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Interactive exploration Earth, Weather & Climate The water cycle Where can a drop of rain go next? Follow water above and below the surface. Pave part of the land, change evaporation, and watch the water budget rearrange.
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Interactive exploration Earth, Weather & Climate Plate tectonics and moving continents How can moving rock leave a clock on the ocean floor? Pull a ridge apart over millions of years. Read the age and magnetic pattern left behind, then compare spreading, sliding and subduction.
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