Download Internet Webquest

Name__________________________Period____
WEBQUEST: Plate Tectonics & Volcanoes
Log onto http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/
science/top2.html&link=http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/understanding.html to complete this
worksheet. (This link can be accessed from the Earth Science page of my website.)
Type
The website contains information regarding each of the 3 types of plate boundaries we will be discussing
in class. You will need to read the information to determine the definition and example locations.
There are images for each of the three types, but there is also a link towards the top of the page that is
titled Illustration of the Main Types of Plate Boundaries. This will show all of the boundary types on one
picture. It is up to you to determine which one you would like to use.
Description/Definition
Example
location
Diagram
Divergent
Label with crust, lithosphere, magma, ridge
Convergent
Label with : ocean, mountain, trench, oceanic crust, continental
crust, lithosphere & magma
What is the
ring of fire,
and what
causes it?
Transform or
Conservative
Draw the San Andreas Fault. Label the North American Plate,
the Pacific Plate, and add arrows showing the direction the two
plates are moving.
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PART 2: Follow this link for the SAVAGE EARTH: The Earth at Work WEBSITE:
http://glencoe.com/sec/science/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/
top2.html&link=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
Click on:
Hell’s Crust: Our Everchanging Planet (along left)
Sidebar Three “The Ring of Fire” (along top)
 Scroll down & click on picture of the “Ring of Fire” to enlarge it. Then complete the map
as instructed below.
1. On the map at the bottom of this page, highlight or draw a colored line on the following map where the
“Ring of Fire” is found. NOTE-check map carefully, the continents may not be in same place. Be sure
you have line along correct side of each continent.
2. Use your textbook p 455 to do the following, or use the following link
https://www3.awinfosys.com/practiceexam/shared/images/exm2008PracticeSC10SampleA_Media9_1.
gif
a. Draw the outlines of following plates on the map
b. Label the plates with their names
NOTE: map may have continents in different order or place.
Pacific, North American, South American, Cocos, Nazca, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian,
Arabian, & African plates.
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PART 3: Use the following website to look up specific volcanoes: http://volcano.si.edu/reports_weekly.cfm
*****EACH VOLCANO SHOULD BE FROM A DIFFERENT CONTINENT or area of the earth.
Click on the following in order:
1. “Reports” tab along the top
2. “Smithsonian USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report”
3. Select and click on a “red balloon”. The name of the volcano will pop up. Click on the Volcano
Name.
4. Complete the info in the table below for the volcano.
5. Now select another “red balloon” and do the same.
****NOTE: Be sure to select your 4 volcanoes from DIFFERENT continents.
6. Mark the location & name of the volcano on the map on the previous page. NOTE – even though
the website has a map of the location, be sure to check your latitude and longitude when mapping.
Name of
Volcano
Date of
Last
Activity
Popocatepetel
9/21/2003
Location
Important/Interesting Facts
Have you
marked it
on the
map?
(City & country,
or latitude &
longitude)
Mexico
19 N
98.6 W
Had at least 6 small to moderate
eruptions in 2001.
December 2000=largest eruption in 1000
years-required 50,000 to evacuate
Name means “smoking mountain”
Named by Aztecs
Snow-capped stratovolcano
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