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Introduction
Welcome to the student's guide to Cornell University's Discover Our Earth pages. The Discover Our Earth project provides a variety of resources designed to help you learn about Earth science topics. The Quick Earth Study Tool (QUEST) is an interface to a variety of data sets that will allow you to explore the solid Earth. This tool reflects our idea that it is much more fun to explore the Earth for yourself than to have someone tell you a bunch of tedious facts. In fact, this is how scientists work anyway, so it's probably the best way to learn science.
We've set up a series of activities that we think will
help you understand different aspects of the Earth: volcanoes, earthquakes,
topography, plate tectonics and sea level change. Each activity has a set
of questions to answer, because putting your ideas into writing is a great
way to make sure you understand what you're looking at. When you've completed
an activity, feel free to explore more on your own!
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