Download Shifting Plates Choice Board

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Class Period________
Shifting Plates Choice Boards
Directions: You and your partner will choose two topics from the Shifting Plates
Choice Board. Along with researching the topics, you and your partner will choose
a product to create for each topic. You may only use one product once.
CHOICE BOARDS DUE
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Topics
***This must be one of your choices
The different layers of
Earth
Continental Drift and
Plate Tectonics Theory
*Types of Movements at the
plate boundaries (divergent,
convergent, and transform)
and what forms at each
boundary.
Create a map of the world
showing the world’s major
tectonic plate boundaries;
Label 10 active volcanoes.
Types of volcanoes:
fissure, shield, ashcinder, composite, dome,
caldera
Earthquake safety and
preparation
Historic earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions
Detecting and predicting the
movement of Earth’s plates
Diagrams and maps with
tables
Pictures and drawings
Models with description
cards
Short story or poem
Poster or brochure
Board game or card game
Children’s book
Newspaper article
Free choice
The “Ring of Fire”
Products
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Class Period________
Shifting Plates Choice Boards:
Questions and Ideas
The following are questions for each topic that you and your partner should answer within
your project and ideas to use for your project:
The Different Layers of Earth

Analyze how scientists know that earth has four major layers when we can only dig
down 20 km (or approximately 13 miles), that is only through the top part of the crust!

How is the earth affected by the influence of man?
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Theory

Prove or disprove the continental drift and the plate tectonics theory.

Design a method that would test the validity of the continental drift and plate tectonics
theory.
Types of Movement at the plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, transform

Describe a model that you might use to represent the relationships that exist between
the three types of movements at the plate boundaries.

Apply what you know about the three types of movements at the plate boundaries and
create models of the different geological formations that occur as a result of these
movements.
Plate Tectonics and the Formation of Mountains, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

How is the earth affected by these long-term and short term geological cycles?

Describe a model that you might use to represent the relationships that exist between
plate tectonics and the formation of mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Types of Volcanoes: fissure, shield, ash-cinder, composite, dome, caldera

Investigate how the different types of volcanoes are formed.

Show the differences between the different types of volcanoes, including if some are
more dangerous than others.
The “Ring of Fire”

Examine and create the “Ring of Fire” and explain why the “Ring of Fire” occurred.

Besides volcanoes, hypothesize and investigate what other geological occurrences the
“Ring of Fire” has produced.
Earthquake Safety and Preparation

Critique current earthquake safety procedures and preparations. Justify why current
procedures are good or why and how they could be improved.

Create your own method of preparing people for an earthquake and keeping them
safe.
Historic Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions

Draw conclusions as to why the largest continental United States earthquakes occurred
in or around California?

Though most volcanoes are mountains, most mountains are not volcanoes, why not?
Detecting and Predicting the Movement of Earth's Plates

Explain how people benefit when the movement of the earth's plates are predicted and
detected.

Describe the steps involved in detecting and predicting the movement of earth's
plates.