Vocabulary Plate Tectonics
Getting to know the Physical Layers of Earth
Layers of the earth Textbook reading
Defintions
Layers of Earth Project
Informational Links for Project
Lithosphere and astenosphere depth
Temperatures of lithosphere and astenosphere
http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/structure/
Example Project for Layers of earth
Make sure you include the following information for the crust, mantle, inner core, outer core, lithosphere and astenosphere.
1. Matter (solid, liquid, gas, or ductile.
2. Density
3. Depth
4. Temperature
5. Materials
*Make sure you turn in research sheet.
Information for density
Alfred Wegener: Animated Life Pangaea
Questions
1. Who was Alfred Wegener?
2. How is Wegener an example of how science benefits from someone in a different field of study?
3. How did Alfred Wegener study the atmosphere (2 ways) and what did he notice?
4. What did Alfred Wegener have to learn when he was doing field study in the Arctic?
5. What was the evidence Alfred Wegener used theory on continental drift?
6. Alfred Wegener like everyone noticed the continetns were like jigsaw puzzle pieces. What was different the Wegener noticed?
7. Why was Alfred Wegener considered an outsider?
8. What were Wegeners 3 books about?
9. Why did Alfred Wegener do when his companions wanted to give up?
10. How did Alfred Wegener die, explain what happened.
Plates Move Apart
Convergent Boundaries
Questions?
1. What are convergent boundaries?
2. What type of physical features are created at convergent boundaries?
3. What are the 3 types of convergent boundaries?
4. What happens when oceanic crust collides with continental crust? (Explain in diagram and complete sentences)
5. What happens when oceanic crust collides with oceanic crust? (Explain in diagram and complete sentences)
6. What happens when continental crust collides with continental crust? (Explain in diagram and complete sentences)
Divergent Boundaries
1. What happens at divergent boundaries?
2. What causes the plates to move apart?
3. How does new crust for, explain and draw a diagram?
4. What happens at underwater oceanic-oceanic divergent boundaries?
5. What happens at Continental-continental divergent boundaries?
6. How is the African Rift Valley and the Red Sea Formed?
Transform Boundaries
1. How do transfer boundaries move? Diagram and explanation
2. What transform boundary is found of the west coast of america?
3. How are transform boundaries dangerous to cities?
4. Give at least 3 examples of transform boundaries around the world?
5. What physical features and geological processes are found at transform boundaries?
Alfred Wegner Storyboard
Complete notes Slide 6-31
Brainpop Plate tectonics
Worksheet for Brain Pop Plate Tectonics : Either Print off or write in your notebook
Homework worksheet for plate boundaries
Plate Boundaries (Will help you complete Homework sheets)
Milky Way Lab
Internal Structure (Just do two types of crust )
Divergent Plate Boundaries
Convergent Plate Boundaries
Transfer Boundaries
Plate Tectonics Lab
Read the section Earthquakes Occur along faults and do the following:
Take at least a page of Cornell notes on the reading make sure include important information including:
The different types of faults and how earthquakes are formed.
Draw the three different types of faults like we did in the interactive video and explain each fault and its effects.
Complete questions 1-6
Earthquakes Release Energy
Read the section Earthquakes release energy
Take 1-2 pages of Cornell notes including explaining what seismic waves, focus, and epicenter are. You also need to include the three different types of waves and how earthquakes are found.
also complete questions 1-6
Earthquake Webquest
Different Types of Faults
Earthquakes 101