We’ve been investigating the movement of Earth’s Tectonic Plates using data from GPS. You can get a copy of the inquiry by clicking here.
- Part A of the inquiry was to be completed on the inquiry worksheet, one per table, and turned in. Part A was worth 25 points.
- Part B was to be completed in your notebook including the data table, map, and questions and answers. Part B is worth 75 points.
I noticed many people having trouble locating cities on the map using latitude and longitude here’s a new map if you want to try again.
I wonderrrrr…
If the plate tectonics are still moving and we know it.. when will we be able to see that they have moved?
i wonderr.. if the plate tectonics are still moving and we know it..when will we be able to tell that they have moved?
Soooooooooooooon.
I wonder, why earthquakes happen inside plates not only on the outlines of them??????
Edgar p.7, 10
What does “sooooooooooooon” refer to?
I wonder if Antartica have many earthquakes?
Like in the resent maps you have shown us (with the arrows that are pointing in the direction the plates are moving)some of the arrows are pointing in different directions that are on the same plate, does this mean that the continents are slowly spreading apart from their selfs? Is this part of what causes rivers to get wider or narrower and canyons to form?
Answer:Yes and no. Continents were once together in one(as some scientist belive) super continent called Panga. Panga broke apart to form the smaller continents you see today. Can, let’s say North America be breaking off into smaller little continents, yes it can, but not very likely. Continets break apart from each other because a part of the crust underneath them gets too hot and thin. This creates a new
“spreading ridge” and the plate moves slowly away from the heat creating new oceans or making mountains. I really dought it thought that that is one of the reasons rivers get wider and narrower or canyons form. What causes those things to happen is a somewhat differant kind of shift in the plates.
Sources:
http://www.querycat.com/faq/d1ad7870cc30044eb488ec9a7bf9f7ba
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/cindy%20luho/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/ETM345QF/VAN%2520HUNEN%5B1%5D.ppt#297,15,Slide 15
I wonder… Why we can’t feel the plates when the move????
i wonder… why the plates move???
i wonder what the plates looks like do they look like plates?????
i wonder if the plates ever stop moving what will happen???
i wonder why earthquakes start and volcanoes form when they are no where near the fault line?
RE: Narine pd3
I don’t think that the plates look like real plates.
I always imaged them looking like big huge peices of metal under the Earth!
“sooooooooon” i don’t know .
Mental would be cool in/under the Earth!!!!!!
Magma Layers Make It Right?
I Wonder……………………………Is Mental Found Only From Rock Or Can It Be From Magma?!?!
RE: katie 7
I totally agree with you.
that is a really good i wonder. <3
Is that how plates tectonics really look like in real life.
I wonder why the tectonic plates started to move in the first place. Convection currents in the mantle are moving them now but what caused them to move originaly. I reasearched it a little and some say an earthquake first broke up Pangea but I’d like to get some ideas from the class.
Douglas P-7, 16
I’d like to here ideas from other students as well. BTW can you give us a link to where you researched this?
i wonder why the plates move so slow and we still dont feel nothing.
Jessica P4>>>>>18
you don’t feel the plates move because it moves very slow
like as slow as a fingernail grows
about 5-7 cm a year
paulina p7
o yea i kinda forgot about that.