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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.

What Is the Underlying Principle of Seismograph Construction?
What Is Required for Liquefaction to Occur in an Earthquake?
Where Do Body Waves and Surface Waves Travel?
How Is Earthquake Strength Related to Where Mountains Are Moving?
Why Does Haiti Have So Many Earthquakes?
What Is a Mud Volcano and How Does It Form?
Why Are So Many Earthquakes Happening?
Why Do Earthquakes and Volcanoes Occur in Patterns?
How Are Felsic Magmas Formed?
Is Mount St. Helens a Convergent Boundary?
What Type of Plate Boundary Is Iceland On?
Is Mount Sinai a Volcano? The Geological Evidence
What Is an Earthquake Fault and How Do They Work?
What Type of Fault Occurs at a Divergent Boundary?
What Is an Active Volcano and How Is One Classified?
What Is a Volcanic Arc and How Does One Form?
Do All Plate Boundaries Cause Earthquakes?
What Happens When Two Plates Carrying Continental Crust Collide?
What Is a Lahar and How Do These Volcanic Mudflows Form?
How Are Plate Boundaries and Faults Related to Earthquakes?
What Is the San Andreas Fault and How Does It Work?
Why Are There So Many Earthquakes in San Francisco?
How Often Do Geysers Erupt and What Determines the Frequency?
How Are Geysers Formed? The Science Behind the Eruption
What Happens When a Divergent Boundary Occurs?
What Is a Cinder Volcano and How Does It Form?
Are Small Earthquakes Good or Bad for Preventing Big Ones?
Can You Feel an Earthquake in the Air?
What Are Lahars? The Causes and Dangers of Volcanic Mudflows
What Are the Four Major Features of a Subduction Zone?