Post date: Apr 16, 2014 5:55:11 PM
Keywords
Warm-ups
Pangaea DE U4L2
Sea-floor spreading
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Mantle Convection
Subduction Zone
Syncline DE U4L3
Anticline
Folded Mountains
Fault-Block Mountains
Volcano DE U4L4
Vent
Pyroclastic Material
Hot spot
Convergent, Divergent and Transform Boundaries
Stress, Shear, Tension, Compression, Fault, Deformation, Hanging Wall, Foot Wall, Uplift
Magma, Lava, Viscosity, Volcanic Crater, Caldera,
4/17 - What did Alfred Wegener propose? (video clip)
4/18 - Make a Venn diagram of Gondwana and Laurasia. Be sure to include the continents that were in each.
4/21 - What evidence told us about the spreading of tectonics plates? (DE pg. 204 to 205)
4/22 - Summarize 5 evidences for Pangaea, Continental Drift, and Plate Tectonics.
4/24 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Hanging Wall and Footwall as they apply to earthquake faults. (DE pgs. 220-221)
4/25 - Make a Venn diagram comparing magma and lava.
4/28 - What are the 3 main types of volcanoes? Name 3 characteristics for each. (DE pg. 229)
4/29 - What kind of volcanoes form: 1) above a Hot spot, 2) at convergent plate boundaries and 3) at divergent plate boundaries.
Websites
Other Words & Concepts
Assignments
Objectives
DE U4L2 - Plate Tectonics 4/21
Pangaea and Continental Drift 4/21
DE U4L3 - Mountain Building 4/24
Earthquake Faults 4/25
Quiz: Faults and Mountains 4/25
DE U4L4 - Volcanoes 4/29
Volcanoes! 4/30
Plate Tectonic and Volcano Picture 5/1
Test: DE Unit 4 -The Restless Earth 5/1
Advanced
Material not covered so far that could be on Science OAKs.
In order of importance.
DE U3L2 - The Rock Cycle
DE U2L2 - Relative Dating
DE U2L4 - Geologic Time Scale
DE U1L2 - Weathering
DE U1L3 - Erosion and Deposition by Water (Partially covered)
Identify 6 different kinds of evidence for plate tectonics and Pangaea.
Describe how tectonic plates move
Identify geologic events that occur because of tectonic plate movement.
Identify types of mountains and volcanoes, what causes them, and how they form.