Unit 7: Plate Tectonics
Topics
Materials
Learning Goals
Continental Drift Theory -list and explain the evidence behind Wegener's continental
drift theory
-know the shortcoming of the theory
compare and contrast continental drift to modern theory
Plate Tectonics Wksheets
Ch. 7
Plates CD-Rom
Plate Tectonics PP
-list and explain evidence from study of sea floor including ocean floor topography, age and thickness, and geomagnetic reversals
-explain how volcano locations, earthquake locations (especially deep focus earthquakes)  and hotspot island chains  are evidence in support of plate tectonics
-explain how "polar wandering" is evidence in support of plate tectonics
-understand how rocks can act like "compasses" preserving the past magnetic fields and location of the poles
Plate Tectonics Wksheets
Ch. 7 p
Plates CD-Rom
Plate Tectonics PP
Modern Plate Tectonic Theory
Plate Tectonics Wksheets
Ch. 7 p. 182-187
Plates CD-Rom
Plate Tectonics PP
-understand the significance of crust type (oceanic vs. continental), lithosphere, and asthenosphere to plates and plate interactions and motions
-be familiar with a map of the world showing plates and plate boundaries, important plates, important boundaries, and directions of movement
-identify & describe types of plate boundaries, associated features and events, and examples of locations in world
-explain why features and events (ex: volcanoes or deep earthquakes, trenches, tsunamis) occur at the types of boundaries they do and not at others
Plate Boundaries
Volcanism PP
Plates CD-Rom
viscosity lab
Ch. 8 review questions assigned
-understand the relationship between plate boundaries and volcanism
-classify and describe volcanic eruptions by type, cone structure, magma type, and eruption materials and know some famous examples of each
-describe dangers of volcanism and warning signs
-understand the relationship between mountain belts and plate boundaries
Volcanism & Mountain building
-define an earthquake, understand cause including how this affects depth boundary to focus
-relate epicenter, focus, and faults to each other and earthquakes
-describe types of and sources of stress in rocks and relationship to earthquakes
-understand  intruments & processes used to measure earthquakes, find epicenters, and determine the time of earthquakes
-describe and compare seismic waves in terms of travel style, speed, ability to move through liquids, solids, gasses, and destructiveness
-describe earth's layers in terms of composition and state of matter as well as relative thickness and location
-understand and identify common earthquake patterns related to frequency, plate boundaries, depth, magnitude etc.
-describe/understand  common dangers, prediction ability, and safety precautions
-understand earthquake risk in Boston with regard to faults, plate boundaries, stresses experienced, past earthquakes, preparedness of city/unique dangesr
Earthquakes and Earth's Interior                          
-Earthquake patterns assignment & pp
-earthquake pp/class notes
-ch. 6 review questions assigned
-locating an epicenter lab
-earthquake safety handout
-Earthquake! article and questions about earthquakes in Boston
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