1. Turn in your Sea-Floor Spreading Model Analysis Questions
Wednesday 12/6/17
Notebook Entry: Do you think earthquakes and volcanoes are related to sea-floor spreading and subduction? Explain why or why not?
Turn in your Sea-Floor Spreading Model Analysis Questions

2. SCIENTIFIC THEORY Explanation based on a large amount of evidence
Tested many, many times and the results supported the theory.
Examples: gravitational theory, plate tectonics theory, evolution theory, cell theory, etc.

3. Theory of Plate Tectonics
Earth’s crust is broken up into pieces called plates.
Earth’s plates are in slow, constant motion.
Convection currents in the mantle are the cause of the motion.

5. Plate Boundary Types

6. REMINDER Vocab cards due tomorrow.
Quiz tomorrow!!! Study using your spiral (maps and 2 column notes) & textbook (lessons 1 and 2)

7. Thursday 12/7/17 No Notebook Entry Today
Please return your spiral and textbook to the cupboard.
Clear off your desk for the quiz. You only need a pencil.
We will be doing the vocab card peer checklist after the quiz so you do NOT need your cards right now.

8. Vocab Card Checklist
Review your classmates cards and fill out the checklist.
Return the cards and checklist to the owner.
When you get your cards back make revisions if needed.
Keep your cards and TURN IN THE CHECKLIST!!!!!

9. Friday 12/8/17
Notebook Entry: Examine the photo. What do you notice about the rocks? Record two detailed observations about the rocks in this photo.
Photo of the San Andreas Fault near Gorman, California, showing rocks of the Pacific Plate (gray rocks on the left side of the fault) and the North American Plate (tan rocks on the right side of the fault). There are very few places on Earth where you can see two plates in contact like this. Photograph copyright by David Lynch. 

10. Vocab Card Checklist
Review your classmates cards and fill out the checklist.
Return the cards and checklist to the owner.
When you get your cards back make revisions if needed.
Keep your cards and TURN IN THE CHECKLIST!!!!!

11. Plate Boundary Types

13. New Vocab Card Assignment
Due Wednesday12/13/17
Words are:
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Deep Ocean Trench
Plate Tectonics
Rift Valley

14. Monday 12/11/17 Fill out your assignment notebook for the week.
No Notebook Entry- but you still need your notebook and your textbook at your desk.

15. Plate Boundary Types

17. Plate tectonics is the cause of…
Continental Drift
Size and shape of the oceans
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Mountain Ranges
Deep-ocean trenches
Mid-ocean ridges
Rift valley

18. I Still Want to Know
Look at question number 8 on your Modeling Sea-Floor Spreading Questions
Write on a post-it note what you wrote for the “What I still want to know…”
If you wrote nothing or have not done the questions you need to think of one to put on the post it.
Hang your post on the white butcher paper and in the section for your class period.

19. Tuesday 12/12/17
Notebook Entry: 1. Name the feature at point A . What is the type of plate boundary is associated with this feature? 2. Name the feature at C. What is the type of plate boundary associated with this feature?

20. Vocab Card Checklist
Review your classmates cards and fill out the checklist.
Return the cards and checklist to the owner.
When you get your cards back make revisions if needed.
Keep your cards and TURN IN THE CHECKLIST!!!!!

21. Converging Plates 2 plates move towards each other.
Density of the crust determines what plates ends up on top.
2 plates have different densities = 1 sinks and creates a deep ocean trench & volcanoes.
2 plates of the same density = both go up creating high mountain ranges.

22. Volcanoes
Mountains - Himalayas

23. Divergent Plates 2 plates move apart
ocean crust moves apart = a mid-ocean ridge
crust moves apart on land = deep valley called a rift valley.

24. Continent Crust
Ocean Crust

25. Rift Valley in Iceland

26. Transform Plates
2 plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions.
Earthquakes often occur as the plates slip past each other.

27. Transform Plates San Andreas Fault in CA

28. Wednesday 12/13/17
Notebook Entry: Why do you think volcanoes and mountains do not form at transform plate boundaries?

29. Plate Boundary Skits
In a group of 3-4 you will create a short skit (2-3 minutes) about one plate boundary type.
I will assign your group a type of boundary.
Fill out the chart for your assigned plate boundary type.
Plan and practice a skit that you can act out in front of the class to help us understand your plate type and the processes/features related with it.

30. Quiz Tomorrow! Complete the review assignment to help you prepare.
Quiz covers plate tectonics
Basics of Plate Tectonics Theory
Boundary Types
Landforms Created by boundary types
Processes involved with plate movement (sea-floor spreading, subduction)