2. PLATE TECTONICS
LESSON #1: GEOLOGY: Continental Drift
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1) NOTES PPT: GEOLOGY AND CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• Open above presentation and then
2. WORKBOOK Notability Activity:
3) TASK : MAPPING THE RING OF FIRE
- Use the map handout to complete the task
MAP FILE PDF: Open this file to help with Tectonics map
3. INTERACTIVE SiTE: Tectonics
- follow link and complete activites
Continental Drift
LESSON #2: GEOLOGY: TECTONICS
1) NOTES 1 PPT : CONVECTION CURRENTS and PLATE TECTONICS
• Open above presentation and then
complete FITB WS
1) NOTES 2: OPEN PPT TECTONICS
- FITB WS given to you (download if absent)
2. WORKBOOK Notability Activity:
4. WORKBOOK Notability Activity:
- Open in Notability and complete questions
Print at home if you would like to use as review sheet
Open: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (PPT)
- Use the FITB Ws to complete your notes
2) INTERACTIVE SITE:
Go HERE and answer the questions by clicking on site
2) NOTES 2: Plate Boundaries and Tectonic Landforms (PPT)
- Master Notes will be provided to you
3) IMAGES to HELP with BOUNDARY TYPES WORKSHEET #1
Clip #1: Convection Currents Explained
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3) NOTES 2 Oceanic and Continental Plates:
Go here for online Textbook explaining the interaction and
movement of oceanic plates and continental plates and the
physical landforms they create.
Aditional Site for research
3) Key terms: Key Terms: Tectonics
LESSON #2 PLATES & CONTINENTS
PART A: Plates Vs. Continents
1) Plates vs. Continents: What is the difference?
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PART B :MEDIA CORNER: Movement of the Earth's Crust
1) Clip 1: How the Earth was Formed (1.5 min)
2) Clip 1: Pangea (1.5 min)
3) Clip 3: Earth's Movements
4) Clip 4: When Continents Collide: (3 Min)
5) Clip 5: When Continents Split Apart
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MEDIA CORNER: Movement of the Earth's Plates IN
1) Clip 1: How the Earth was Formed (1.5 min)
2) Clip 1: Pangea (1.5 min)
3) Clip 3: Earth's Movements
4) Clip 4: When Continents Collide: (3 Min)
5) Clip 5: When Continents Split Apart
LESSON #3: FROM PANGEA TO TECTONICS
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The Origins of the Continents: Pangea
The continental land masses were not always where they are today.
Africa and South America were actually touching around 300 million years ago.
All the continents were touching; The Earth was one piece.
There were no continents spread all over the world like today.
It was called Pangea: which means “all land”
The Earth's Crust is never at rest. Pieces of the crust are always moving, and
in different directions.
Because of this movement caused by convection currents of magma in the mantle,
Pangea broke up, and the continents spread apart and moved to their current
locations.
In some areas the crust is rising while in others it is slowly sinking.
Earthquakes occur at cracks in the earth's crust we call fault lines.
Where two plates meet and rub each other we call that the plate boundary (edge).
Major earthquakes happen here at the (plate boundary) where the 2 plates meet.
Earth quakes do not only happen at plate boundaries, but anywhere there is a fault
line (crack) in the earth's crust.
There are fault lines all over the continents, not just at the plate boundaries.
There are no plate boundaries near Ottawa and yet we regularly feel
earthquakes near here.
Vancouver British Columbia sits on a fault line but there are few earthquakes.
THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE BIG ONE.
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