Plate Tectonics. In a nutshell, the basics of plate tectonics are these: 1) the Earth's crust consists of a number of rigid plates. 2) these plates move and interact with each other. 3) the driving force behind plate tectonics is convection in the mantle. 4) in areas of mantle upwelling (rising hot mantle material) the crust is stretched apart and new crust is generated.
Python is arguably the biggest programming language on the Pi right now, for good reason. It has lots of tools, is well supported and development is really fast. Plus itâs easy to learn.
The Raspberry Pi is a neat little ARM SoC (System on a Chip) based computer that runs Linux and a growing number of small/embedded operating systems. There is a $25 model A with 256MB of RAM and one USB port. There is a $35 Model B that has 512MB of RAM, 2 USB ports, and a 10/100 ethernet port. The Pi runs Debian Linux from an SD card and provides a full desktop environment.