Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 5

Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 5

Standards:

ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth: Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches. (HS.ESS1.C GBE) (secondary to MS-ESS2-3)

NGSS Practices Practice 1: Asking Questions and Defining Problems, Practice 8: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Objectives: 

Students will be able to ask questions and obtain information as they actively read “Listening to Earth,” an article about how scientists investigate plate-mantle interactions at convergent and divergent plate boundaries (patterns).

Multiple Choice

The place where two plates meet?

• A plate singles club

• Fault line

• plate boundary

• earthquake

Multiple Choice

Earth's plates are a ______ solid material. Earth's mantle is a _____ solid material.

• soft; hard

• soft; soft

• hard; soft

• hard; hard

Multiple Select

What guidelines should you use while you read? (check ALL that apply).

• Annotate text to make a record of your thinking. Highlight challenging words, add notes to record questions & make connections to your own experience.

• Think carefully about what you read. Pay attention to your own understanding.

• Examine all visual representations carefully. Consider how they go together with the text.

• After you read, discuss what you have read with others to help you better understand the text.

Multiple Choice

Plates move towards one another at ______________ boundaries.

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• detergent

Multiple Choice

In which type of boundary do the plates move away from each other?

• convergent

• normal

• divergent

• transform

Multiple Choice

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• strike slip

Multiple Choice

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent

• convergent

• transform

• subduction

Open Ended

What did you learn from the article about what happens to the plates and mantle at plate boundaries?