Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 7

Plate Motion @ Home Lesson 7

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 2: Developing and Using Models, Practice

4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Practice 6: Constructing

Explanations and Designing Solutions, Practice 8: Obtaining,

Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Objective:

Students use the Simulation to analyze data about plate-mantle interactions. They then develop models to explain that rock is added to plates at divergent boundaries and that rock sinks into the mantle at convergent boundaries (cause and effect).

Open Ended

What were your findings from Part 1 of the Sim activity?

Multiple Choice

Rock is added to the edges of both plates at divergent plate boundaries?

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

One plate sinks into the mantle and is destroyed at convergent plate boundaries?

• True

• False

Open Ended

What is the connection between earthquakes and plate motion?

Multiple Choice

What was the other type of activity associated with plate motion that you saw in the Sim today?

• Waterfall activity

• Volcanic activity

• Dinner

Multiple Select

Divergent plate boundaries: (check ALL that apply)

• form a trench

• the plate sinks into the mantle and is destroyed

• form a mid-ocean ridge

• rock from the mantle is added to the edges of both plates

Multiple Select

Convergent plate boundaries: (check ALL that apply)

• form a trench

• form a mid-ocean ridge

• the plate sinks into the mantle and is destroyed

• rock from the mantle is added to the edges of both plates

Multiple Select

Any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth

• Volcanic Activity

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Normal activity

Multiple Choice

Plate Boundary

The place where two plates meet;

• most volcanoes and earthquakes occur here.

• The location where the food falls onto the table.

• Where one country ends and another begins.

• The edge of your patella.

Multiple Choice

What happens when two plates are moving toward each other?

• The plates hit each other and break into pieces making sand.

• One plate goes underneath the other plate into the soft rock below.

• The plates push against each other, making the edges bend upward.

• One plate goes underneath the other plate into the ocean below.

Multiple Choice

Something we observe to be similar over and over again

• pattern

• mantle

• eruption

• rifiting

Multiple Choice

Moving toward the same place.

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate Boundary

• Plate

Multiple Choice

Moving apart in different directions

• Convergent

• Divergent

• Plate Boundary

• Plate