Feb 23 2013
QFD: Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang
?FD: What is the force that drives plate movement?
Objective: 3d. Students know why and how earthquakes occur and the scales used to measure their intensity and magnitude.
1) finish drawings in notebook
2) vocab (HW) if not finished due Monday
Vocabulary words – define each word and use 5 of them correctly in a perfect paragraph
1) seismograph 2) Mercalli scale 3) Richter scale 4) seismologist 5) fault 6) focus 7) epicenter
8) liquefaction 9) tsunami 10) moment magnitude scale 11) P waves 12) S waves 13) surface waves 14) magnitude 15) reverse fault 16) compression 17) earthquake 18) tension 19) shearing 20) aftershock
Feb 21 2013
QFD: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
?FD: What is the feature produced when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
Objective: 3b. Students know the principal structures that form at the three different kinds of plate boundaries.
1) draw color and label pgs 133, 155, , fig 14 pg 157
Feb 20 2013
QFD: The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it. Lord Bacon
?FD: Name the three types of boundaries and a feature associated with each?
Objective: 3b. Students know the principal structures that form at the three different kinds of plate boundaries.
platespzzle
1) quiz
1 What dynamic process produces new oceanic lithosphere?
A sea floor spreading
B erosion of ocean ridges
C underwater volcanoes
D deep sea thermal venting
2 What is one way that mid–ocean ridges provide evidence of sea floor spreading?
A Rocks at the crest of the ridge are young; rocks found further from the crest are older.
B Rocks all along the ridges are a consistent age.
C Rocks at the crest of the ridge are old; rocks found further from the crest are younger.
D Rocks at the crest of the ridge are much hotter than rocks found elsewhere.
3 With the sediment from ocean drilling, scientists found that the youngest oceanic crust is located at __________.
A continental margins
B bottom of oceanic trenches
C ridge crests
D subduction zones
4 Which of the following is a reason why the ocean floor is said to be relatively new?
A The rate of sea floor spreading is rapid enough to recycle the ocean floor in a 200 million year cycle.
B The ocean floor only appeared about 180 million years ago.
C The ocean floor was only discovered relatively recently.
D The rate of sea floor spreading is rapid enough to recycle the ocean floor in a 4 billion year cycle.
5 With evidence of seafloor spreading, __________ form at sites of plate convergence where one moving plate descends beneath another and plunges back into the mantle.
A hydrothermal vents
B mid-ocean ridges
C guyots
D deep ocean trenches
6 The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is __________ at a rate of about 2.5cm per year.
A converging
B spreading
C creating submarine canyons
D creating hot spots
7 At the Mid–Atlantic Ridge, plates are moving __________.
A away from each other
B beneath each other
C towards each other
D along side each other
8 Scientists use the topography of the ocean floor to support the idea of seafloor spreading. Which of the following would allow scientists to study the topography of the ocean floor?
A continental shapes and fault lines
B airplanes and boats
C surface water temperature and tidal patterns
D sonar and satellites
9 All of the following provide evidence for the theory of plate tectonics EXCEPT
A characteristics of living organisms on the seafloor.
B patterns of magnetic fields on the seafloor.
C the relatively young age of the seafloor.
D topographical features on the seafloor.
10 A tectonic plate boundary that occurs when two plates grind past each other without the production or destruction of lithosphere is a __________.
A convergent boundary
B divergent boundary
C transform fault boundary
D major plate
11 The Aleutian islands off the shore of Alaska are an arc-shaped chain of small volcanic islands called a volcanic island arc. Which type of convergent boundary process formed these islands?
A oceanic-continental
B continental-continental
C oceanic-oceanic
D seafloor spreading
12 What type of zone occurs when one oceanic plate is forced down into the mantle beneath a second plate?
A plummeting
B submersion
C subduction
D inferior
13 Which of the following would be considered a convergent boundary?
A two oceanic plates spreading away from each other
B an oceanic lithosphere diving beneath another plate
C a continental plate spreading away from another continental plate
D a continental plate grinding along side another continental plate
14 When two continental plates converge together, what type of geographic formation will be the result?
A rift valleys
B island arcs
C trenches
D folded mountains
15 Which of the following would be considered a transform fault boundary?
A Himalayan Mountains
B Mount St. Helens
C East African Rift Valley
D San Andreas Fault
16 Which type of plate boundary would create a rift valley?
A divergent
B convergent
C transform
D uniform
17 Which of the following events would occur at a transform boundary?
A shallow focus earthquakes
B deep focus earthquakes
C volcanoes
D formation of a new sea floor
18 Seafloor spreading happens along what type of plate boundary?
A convergent
B divergent
C San Andres
D subduction
19 The Andes mountains in western South America were created in part by a continental volcanic arc. What was the cause of the volcanic activity that formed these mountains?
A subduction of continental lithosphere
B continental rifts
C subduction of oceanic lithosphere
D seafloor spreading
20 The East African rift valley is an example of which type of plate boundary?
A subduction zone
B transform
C convergent
D divergent
Feb 19 2013
QFD: Arguing with a fool proves there are two. Doris M. Smith
?FD: What type of boundary is the mid ocean ridge? San Andreas fault line?
Objective: 3b. Students know the principal structures that form at the three different kinds of plate boundaries.
1) read notes
platepuzzle answers
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