Download Plate Tech WebQuest

DISCOVER OUR EARTH
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/hawaii/220/PRI/PRI_PT_contdrift.html
Click on the link to answer the following questions
Continental Drift
1. List one types of supporting evidence that Alfred Wegener noted as theories to there being one
giant supercontinent.
2. Try to reconstruct pangea….DO Not Skip This Part! TRY IT!!!!!!!!
Earthquakes
Click on Earthquakes to the left
3. Draw the earthquake basics: label the following ( fault, focus, epicenter)
4. In what 3 directions can both earthquakes and tectonic plates move?
PT Basics (Plate Tectonics)
Click on PT Basics to the left
5. The surface of the Earth is always in motion, driven by _______________________.
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Plate Boundaries
Click on Plate boundaries to the left
6. If I wanted to determine where 2 plates meet, what are 3 different surface features of earth that
would indicate to plates are colliding?
a. ____________________
b. __________________
c. ________________________
7. Click on the what do you think tab:
List 2 facts about plate boundaries.
8. Click on divergent plate boundaries: List 2facts about divergent plates
9.
With arrows, indicate which way divergent plates will move
10. Click on Convergent plates to the left hand side of the screen: What are convergent plate boundaries?
11. With arrows, indicate which way divergent plates will move
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12. Click on the ocean-to-ocean = subduction link: What 3 things can occur where ocean-to-ocean
subduction occurs?
_________________________ _________________________ ___________________
13. How do volcanoes form?
14. Click on the continent-to-continent = subduction link: What formation is the result of two plates
colliding?
15. Click on Transform bundarys to the left hand side of the screen:
With arrows draw the directions of a transform plate boundary
16. Here ______________________is neither created nor destroyed.
17. California’s _____________________________fault is an example of transform
boundary
Plate Motion
18. Click on plate motion to the left: Watch the video on convection currents and read the
description of convection currents.
Diagram convection currents in the box, include arrows and the direction of cool and
hot mantle.
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Mountains
Click on Mountains to the left.
19.
In what 2 ways are mountains compared to icebergs?
Try to see what happens when you change the thickness of Earth’s crust
Volcanoes
Click on Volcanoes to the left: Read the information about volcanoes
Click on the “what do you think” link.
20.
What determines a volcanoes eruption style?
21.
What type of boundary brings about violent volcanoes?
22.
Why?
Hotspot
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Click on Hotspots to the left: What is a hotspot?