Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Earth Science 2 Unit 1

Day Starter
Objective: Students will make connections between plate movement and volcanoes and earthquakes on TST using the words subduction, strike-slip fault, normal fault, reverse fault, convergent boundary, divergent boundary, continental crust, oceanic crust.

Question:
1) What is the theory of continental drift?
2) Why do plates move?
3) What causes volcanoes to form? Earthquakes?

Exit Ticket:
Why do plates move? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph; use at least 2 of the following terms in your explanation: plate boundaries, faults, asthenosphere, lithosphere, mantle, crust.