Plate Tectonics
Tectonic Review
Looking for a fast (sort of fast) review for tomorrows test? Here are a couple of PowerPoint presentations for chapters 8, 9 and 10 from our textbook.
Volcanoes
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Earthquakes Chapt8
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Tectonic Plates Poster Projects
Each table was given the scenario below and one of the 6 questions. You are to design an interesting and informative poster to answer the question. Posters should be about 22×28. This poster project is an in class activity (but it sure wouldn’t hurt to do some research outside class). You will have Wednesday and [...]
Are The Tectonic Plates Still Moving?
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 [...]
Consortium of Geologists
The debate rages on! Does the “Baked Apple” Theory and Land Bridges hold up against the onslaught of new scientific evidence? Will you recommend changes to our current theories? Will you be swayed by a meteorologist’s observations about the shape of the continents?
It is an exciting time at the 23rd Annual Consortium of Geologists! Below is the [...]
Earth’s Plates May Take a Break
By Phil Berardelli
ScienceNOW Daily News
4 January 2008
Movement of the plates that made up the
supercontinent Pangaea could have stopped
temporarily and decreased Earth’s volcanic activity.
Gridlock.
Credit: Nicolle Rager, National Science Foundation,
based on Pangaea map data, Paleogeographic Atlas
Project, University of Chicago
Time and tide may wait for no man, but continents occasionally do. That’s the conclusion of a study published [...]
Could This Really Be Science?
Candy bars in class, kids smiling, could this really be science class?
Sure — if you are doing “gedynamic modeling of tectonic plate boundaries”. Now you know all about divergent, transform and convergent boundaries, right? Well maybe not all but you have a good start. Check the gallery for more class pictures.
Plate Tectonics
As we continue to study the movement of plates around the Earth, I thought I’d give you another resource for more information. Click on the image below
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