Week of Oct. 1
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| Space Shuttle Endeavour flies through LA? Last week Endeavour made its final flight - it will be displayed in the Intrepid Air and Space Museum in Los Angeles |
Our Week
Monday: 1. Finish Rock Cycle Activities - p. 158-162; 12,14,15,and 16 in workbooks, Rock Cycle Lab, and Questions in part 3 of the link below - questions should be in notes pages after p.165 - right across from board notes - All 3 parts due Wednesday
Rock Cycle Interactive
Tuesday: 1. "Mountain Building" 2. p.217-224; 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10,12,13,14,and 15-19 - due Thursday 3. Plate Tectonics Cheat Sheet due Thursday
Wednesday: Wrap up Mountain Building Activities
Thursday: 1. Lava Flow Experiment begins
Friday: Lave Flow Continues
Tuesday: 1. "Mountain Building" 2. p.217-224; 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10,12,13,14,and 15-19 - due Thursday 3. Plate Tectonics Cheat Sheet due Thursday
Wednesday: Wrap up Mountain Building Activities
Thursday: 1. Lava Flow Experiment begins
Friday: Lave Flow Continues
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| Lava fountain and lava flows on Pu`u `O`o, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i
Question of the Week - Explain the hot spot volcanic system going on in Hawaii. Why is Hawaii a chain of islands, each with a dormant volcano on it - except for the big island of Hawaii pictured above? What do plate movements have to do with this system?
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The volcano isn't dormant because it is over a geological hot spot. When the plate moves, and moves an island off the hot spot, the volcano will become dormant.-A.J. Scott
ReplyDeleteThe Hawaiian islands are a chain of islands with dormant volcanoes because the volcanoes created Hawaii, when they were over hot spots. Since the Earth's plates moved, the volcanoes were no longer over a hot spot and had no more lava pouring out of it. The big island of Hawaii does have an active volcano because it is the only island over a hot spot, which is where lava comes out from the Earth's core
ReplyDelete-Sharadyn Ille