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Lesson 4 - Plate Movements
By Kelsey Clinton
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Question 1
1.
What materials could we use to make a model of plate tectonics in this classroom?
Question 2
2.
There are different types of rocks in the Earth's crust. Is basalt generally found in the crust under the ocean or under the land?
under the ocean
under the land
Question 3
3.
There are different types of rocks in the Earth's crust. Is granite generally found in the crust under the ocean or under the land?
under the ocean
under the land
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Question 4
4.
Basalt is denser than granite. Which picture shows how the molecules in basalt would look?
A
B
C
Question 5
5.
Basalt is denser than granite. What else must be true about basalt?
basalt is lighter than granite
basalt is heavier than granite
basalt weighs the same as granite
Question 6
6.
Mark locations where two OCEANIC plates are meeting in blue.
Mark locations where two CONTINENTAL plates are meeting in red.
Mark locations where an OCEANIC and CONTINENTAL plate are meeting in yellow.
visibility
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Predictions
Question 7
7.
Predict: what will happen to the graham crackers when they slide past each other (strike-slip fault)?
Question 8
8.
Predict: what will happen to the graham crackers when they collide straight-on (convergence)?
Question 9
9.
Predict: what will happen to the graham crackers when they move apart from each other (divergence)?
Question 10
10.
Predict: what will happen to the graham crackers when the oceanic cracker meets the continental cracker (subduction)?
Question 11
11.
Fill in your observations and LABEL THE PICTURES with what fault type they are
visibility
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Question 12
12.
Fill in your observations and LABEL THE PICTURES with what fault type they are
visibility
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Question 13
13.
Which plate model do you think created Mt. Everest and WHY?