Download Plate Tectonic Webquest

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The Dynamic Earth Web Activity
1. Go to http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/
2. Click on “Start Your Exploration with Earth’s Structure”
3. Write one important fact about each of these terms that you learned about from page:
Crust
Mantle
Inner Core
Outer Core
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
4. Click on “Plate Tectonics”. Which one looks more like the Earth today?
(Circle One: Left
Right )
Click on your answer and then answer the following:
Who was the scientist who first noticed that the coastlines fit together?
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What are two other reasons this scientist surmised that we were once one large
continent?
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He called this supercontinent _________________________________, which is Greek for
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Fill out this timeline:
200 million years ago
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135 million years ago
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65 million years ago
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50-40 million yrs ago
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5. Click on “Continents Over Time”. Solve the timeline. What is Pangea Ultima?
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6. Click on “Plate Boundaries”. List the 15 major plates:
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7. What is a boundary?
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List the three types of boundaries, define them, and list real-life examples of each:
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17. Click on “Plate Boundary Challenge” and complete until you get at least 18 out of 22 correct.
18. Go to the next chapter: “Slip, Slide and Collide”, and choose “What Happens at Plate
Boundaries”. Answer the following:
a. What is a convergent boundary?
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b. What is a subduction zone?
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c. What is a trench?
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d. What might earthquakes located in subduction zones cause?
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e. What happens when two continental plates collide?
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f. Name one real-life example of this type of mountain building process:
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g. What is a divergent boundary?
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h. What is seafloor spreading?
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What is a mid-ocean ridge?
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j. What is a ridge and how is it formed?
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k. What is a transform boundary?
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l. What is a fault?
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m. What is a strike-slip fault? Name an example of one:
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19. Click on the “Plates interaction” challenge and complete. Also do the lightning challenge.
Play until you get at least a 10/10. Once finished, click on next chapter.
20. Complete and print out the “Test Skills” section. You must score at least 25/30. Print and
hand in with this packet. You’re Done!