Week of Dec. 16th

The San Andreas Fault scars Southern California’s Carrizo Plain like a battle wound. The 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) fault runs through western and southern California, dividing the Pacific and North American plates.

What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault and what type of plate boundary does it occur at?  Stress?

Our Week

OLD: What is the Earth's Crust Like?  Digital Interactive - Questions 1-8 with a map - is it turned in?

What is the Earth's Crust Like?  (From last week)

Digital Interactive - Answer Questions 1-8 on paper - get map from Frick

1.  Questions from this Blog - Exit Slip on paper

2.  Magnet Fun - checked Monday, 12/16

3.  Workbook p. 213; 1-10 due Monday, 12/16

4.  Plate Tectonics Evaluation/Quiz - 40 points on Tuesday, 
Dec. 17

5.  Plate Tectonics Cheat Sheet due Tuesday, Dec. 17
6.  Workbook p. 216-224; Questions 1-3, 8-10, 12-19 - Due Wednesday, Dec. 18
7.  Wed-Lab: Modeling Mountains Questions 1-6 only - no 7 (need clay) - Due Monday, Jan. 6th
8.  Thursday - Lab: Film Canister Volcanoes - Due  Thursday, Jan. 9

To Explore:

Fault Motion Animations

Animation of Himalayas Forming

Video: The Mountain

Questions of the Day (Answer on the back of your P.T. Cheat Sheet)

Mountain Types

1.  Volcanic  - What type of plate boundary? What type Fault? What type of Stress? What type of crust?

           Mt. St. Helens - Before 1980

 Mt. St. Helens After 1980

2.  Folded- What type of plate boundary? What type of Fault?  What type of Stress? What type of crust?

The Himalayas

Folds

3.  Parts of a Fold

Folds are classified by the age of the rock.  Where are the youngest and oldest rock in a syncline and anticline?

4. Fault-Block - What type of plate boundary? What type of Fault? What type Stress?

Yosemite Valley - Sierra Nevada

The Grand Tetons

Week of Dec. 2nd

The Earth's Major Tectonic Plates

Our Week

Monday: 1.  Pangaea Gizmo Checked  2.  Work on Sea-Floor Spreading Activities - Due Wed.

Bar Magnet and Compass Act.

Tuesday:  1.  "Theory of Plate Tectonics"  2. Work on Sea-Floor Spreading Activities

Animations of Plate Boundaries

Animation of Magnetic Field Reversals

Wed.  1.  Check/go over WB p. 201-212  2.  Check/go over sea-floor spreading act.  3.  Begin Plate Tectonics Vocab Diagram - due end of class Thursday

Link for Act. 6 Below - get world map from Frick

What is the Earth's Crust Like?

Thurs:  1.  Work on Plate Tectonic Diagrams - finish by end of class (Tentative)

Fri:  No Core Classes - Off-Line Day

Ring of Fire - The Earth's most active volcanoes

2011- Japan Earthquake