Thursday, November 7, 2013

Earth Science 2 Unit 2

Day Starter
Objective: Students will define and distinguish mountain and ocean formation by completing posters and notes and using the words fault-block mountains, faulting/folding, arc-continent mountains, passive margins, active margins, terrane accretion, ocean trench, abyssal plain, and seamount, Andean Mountains, Alleutian Mountains. 

Question:
1) How were the Himalayan Mountians formed?
2) What occurs at passive margins?
3) What causes ocean trenches to form?

Exit Ticket:
How are mountains formed? Write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph, incorporate at least one of the green vocabulary words from the objective in your response.