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A certified middle school educator, Alexandra Stokes teaches earth and space science at a public school in Miami, Florida. Her classroom instruction focuses on geology and physical geography, leading sixth-grade classes through annual projects that construct tabletop shake tables and model volcanoes. She previously taught general science in an urban middle school district. Stokes earned her bachelor of science in middle school science education from Berea College.

How Hot Is Geyser Water? The Science of Superheating Earth & Space
What Is a Volcanic Plug and How Does One Form?Earth & Space
Where Will the Big One Hit? A Look at Major Fault Lines Earth & Space
What Is an Effusive Volcanic Eruption?Earth & Space
Why Does Pressure in Magma Build Up as It Rises?Earth & Space
Is Mafic or Felsic Magma More Explosive?Earth & Space
Do You Feel Earthquakes More on Higher Floors?Earth & Space
What Is a Volcanic Bomb and How Does It Form?Earth & Space
Where Are Lava Tubes Found on Earth and Beyond?Earth & Space
How Far Does a Secondary Wave Travel in 10 Minutes?Earth & Space
How the Interaction of Tectonic Plates Causes Earthquakes Earth & Space
What Part of the United States Is Not on the North American Plate?Earth & Space
What Is in a Lava Flow? From Chemicals to Gases Earth & Space
What Information Do Geologists Use to Classify Volcanoes?Earth & Space
What’s Happening at the Australian-Pacific Plate Boundary?Earth & Space
Why Do Geysers Erupt While Hot Springs Do Not?Earth & Space
What Happens When the Gas in Magma Is Unable to Escape?Earth & Space
What Lies Underneath Volcanic Features at Earth’s Surface?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If Yellowstone Erupted?Earth & Space
How Are Iceland’s Volcanoes Related to Plate Tectonics?Earth & Space
What Determines the Viscosity of Magma?Earth & Space
How Much Energy Is Released by an Earthquake?Earth & Space
How Fast Is California Sinking?Earth & Space
What Would Happen If Mauna Loa Erupted?Earth & Space
What Is a Volcanic Ash Cloud and How Does It Form?Earth & Space
How Are Underwater Volcanoes Formed?Earth & Space
Do P Waves Travel Through the Mantle?Earth & Space
Is the Mariana Trench a Convergent Boundary?Earth & Space
What Is Elastic Rebound and How Does It Cause Earthquakes?Earth & Space
Is Iceland a Mid-Ocean Ridge? The Science Explained Earth & Space