April 1 to 15 - Earthquakes and Interior of the Earth
Post date: Mar 31, 2014 8:37:52 PM
Warm-ups
3/31 - Put your name in your new Dynamic Earth book in three places. Look through unit 4 and write down major topics covered.
4/1 - What patterns do you see when earthquakes are plotted over a long period of time?
4/2 - What happen in Iquique, Chile yesterday? Magnitude? Depth? Type of fault? What caused it? What were the effects of elastic rebound? Could it have been predicted?
4/3 - Make a table showing how the three kinds of stress, Tectonic Plate Boundaries and Faults are related.
4/7 - Make a Venn diagram comparing the Focus, Fault, and Epicenter. Why is it unlikely that an earthquake's epicenter would fall on a fault line?
4/8 - How can GPS be used to help predict earthquakes at convergent boundaries?
4/10 - What kind of materials can P and S waves go through? How could this tell us about the inside of the Earth?
4/11 - What can you do to prepare for an earthquake? What would you do if an Earthquake happened while you were in class?
Websites
Keywords
Stress DE U4 L5
Deformation
Tectonic Plate Boundary
Seismic Waves DE U4 L6
Seismometer
Magnitude
Body Waves
Surface Waves
triangulation
Intensity
Crust DE U4 L1
Mantle
Core
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Mesosphere
Other Words & Concepts
Earthquake, Focus, Epicenter, Fault, Tension, Compression, Shearing, Elastic Rebound; Divergent, Convergent and Transform Boundaries
Seismogram, Intensity, P-Waves, S-Waves, Richter Scale, Liquefaction
Convection
Assignments
Fettucine Earthquake 3/31
DE U4L5 - Earthquakes 4/3
Plate Boundaries 4/7
DE U4L6 - Measuring EQ Waves 4/9
Earthquake Search 4/10
DE U4L1 - Earth's Layers 4/14
Earthquake! 4/14
Scale Model of Earth's Interior 4/16
Quiz: Earthquakes and Earth's Interior 4/16
Advanced
DE 248-251 4/7
Making a Seismometer wksht 4/8
Objectives
Identify three types of stress and associate them with three types of fault and tectonic plate boundary.
Geographically identify examples of stress, faults and tectonic plate boundaries.
Identify the properties of body waves and surface waves that relate to the magnitude and intensity of earthquakes.
Apply the properties of body waves to triangulate earthquake epicenters and map the interior of the earth.
Explain how we know what is inside the earth.
Identify ways to protect yourself and make damage less severe during earthquakes.
Describe the layers of the earth by chemical composition and physical properties.